Cool nice one ta. Ah CoG ! really should of thought of that myself (doh), pretty much like a car then? keep the CoG as low as possible for better handling.

I would really like to build a really great boat for waves/beach (because I live right near to one) and be very aesthectically pleasing on the eye too!
oh yes and be reasonably rapid to boot[8D] Think i would prefer a pre-fabricated fibre hull than to building a wooden kit.
Soory just thinking out loud here guys, hope you dont mind? Sport 20 sounds real interesting , will have a research on them

Man needs a project during the winter, otherwise I'll be cooped up with her indoors all the time [X(] lol.

Got a budget of about $800 to play with, so if anyone want's to chuck some suggestion in then be my guest
But im still interested to learn about 'the angle of the dangle'

Regards
Sam.