I need no convincing that good ply is still a good way to build boats. I own a self build Micro and despite the fact that it is now 15 years old it requires very little maintenance.

The reason I wrote earlier is that I would like to build a larger more modern design but I would prefer to avoid double diagonal or strip building.

Indeed I do know about the efforts in NZ and am particularly impressed with "Attitude" which I understand is built from stressed ply.

Unfortunately I could find very little info about their building methods on the WWW so if Phil decides to take on the project I would very likely be interested.

Regards