Best approach I found while designing (and I do a bit of that in different areas) is to first design the functionality you want, how things should be. And then try to implement that within the limits of reality, cutting corners where you have to. This means to get down on the overall shape first and only later as a seperate project try to design the building method. This will keep one design project relatively independent of another. And we don't want somebody to delete a whole though train because he feels that it can't be done in ply or what ever.

Remember that the Blade F16 project eventually came up with a building method that could build a hull shape that was thought to be impossible before that time. The driving force was that this hull shape had to be on the Blade and so the challenge was then to figure out how it could be done. I can name many other examples. In the West engineers thought that you couldn't weld aluminium to stainless steel. In Russia they just did it when they found out how to do it after a dew failed tries.

So guys which subjects should we handle first ?

Wouter