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From the cheap seats.

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This version has straight sides and a straight bow. The one with the wave-piercer bow is the same but with slightly inward canted sides. The amont of side canting needed for swept back bow is so small that we probably can get that by just twisting the ply inward at the bow.


I'd strongly suggest keeping with the wave piercing bow to give this boat as much a modern look (within homebuild reason) as possible,
or as Phill said, "It will look like a bicycle with training wheels".
And also per Phill, if it's deemed an issue add a layer of glass


If it's a boat for kids it needs to look like a boat for kids. There is a reason why things look like they're made for kids when, in fact, they are. An opti doesn't exactly look like a modern high performance speedster.

This is, of course, if you aren't expecting to market the boat to adults unless you expect to first sell to the adult in order to get them to build it for the kid, and then you've created the same circle we're in now.

Jake Kohl