Hi Jim: Happy to report that the video disk arrived today in perfect shape. As soon as I could I poured myself a cup of tea and watched the whole set. Congratulations - there is in my opinion enough information to enable a person with a reasonable degree of skill and the appropriate tools and facilities to build a cold-molded hull such as this, though your experience and training certainly come through enough to convince a novice like me that I would want to start on a smaller boat as a first project. I was fascinated by the many ingenious techniques at all stages, such as batten clamping in lieu of vacuum bagging, and the quick and dirty steam tube. I was also extremely impressed at the obvious quality of your building, in every single phase of construction, especially how you achieve a seamless fit of every part before bonding. I think this video would be of interest to anyone contemplating the construction of a cold-molded hull, regardless of the plan, since it contains so many useful tricks for surface preparation, layout and fastening materials, the application of epoxy in various applications, etc. in addition to a great deal of useful information on the more general aspects of boatbuilding from lofting to form construction to finishing. I must say that if a picture is worth a thousand words, then the movie is worth ten thousand pictures in terms of really understanding the process. What I like is not having to interpolate between the "steps of construction" as illustrated in the typical "how to" book. Bruce Bolster (owner of "Northern Traveler")

Jim, Disk received this week, and I have just spend a very enjoyable Saturday afternoon watching the videos. Thank you for going to the trouble of producing them, they take a lot of the mystery and trepidation out of the process for amateurs like me thinking of taking the plunge. One or two of the techniques you show seem so simple and obvious, yet I don't think I've seen them mentioned elsewhere in print; for example your method of 'hanging' the temporary mould frames on the already levelled building stocks so they only need centring, and using boiling water to close up the staple holes in the final skin, alone worth the price, you should increase it. Dick Wynne