I am just about done planking this catboat. Everyone who has ever planked one of these boats seems to have a story to tell. I know why now. I have been having my own adventure. This type of boat is short in length, but really wide in girth in the middle. This particular design seems to have a smaller transom. When I make a pattern for a plank, then take the pattern off the boat and lay it on the floor it looks like a rainbow. Funny thing on the topside planks is that because of all the twist in the plank (first at the stem, then at the stern) the planks go on with the curve facing one way but as the plank gets twisted the curve goes the other way. I really have to trust my patterns and go with it. When I first looked at the plans for this boat I thought cool I will be able to plank this boat with full length planks, no butts, no scarfs. Boy was I wrong. I would have needed lumber 14 feet long and 2 feet wide. Edge setting is not much of an option because of all the twist in the planks. I find that when edge setting planks if there is much of a twist the plank becomes unhappy, just ask Charles. I am down to just one plank, the shutter plank on either side to close the boat up. I have been able to get several full length planks on the boat which is nice.