Yes the point about gybing boards is debatable. I would think that before anyone were to build a boat for manufacture, not just one-off, they would have first thought long and hard about it. I am guessing that Pete did not just arbitrarly decide that would be the thing to do.

I know you could make the canting hulls with mold plugs. That would be the best choice if you are making just a few of the boats. These are two full molds though, one for each hull. They are gearing up to make a large number of boats. More than one mold will be needed for the planned production of the boats. Instead of making a starboard hull then putting in the plugs, making the port hull and so on. They are making different molds as they will always make more than one hull at a time. Why worry about what the plugged area will look like if you plan on doing that much production.

Dan