After many months of looking at and inspecting many plans from a half a dozen sites I selected the Montana Riverboats Beavertail Model, (http://www.montana-riverboats.com/). There are many great options and my decision came down to the size of the boat I was looking for and also a gut feeling that this one was not to difficult for me to tackle, I'm not an accomplished woodworker by any means so this was a big part of my selection. One of the big decisions what type of plywood to use, marine grade plywood is tough to find in Minnesota so that was the first problem to solve because shipping on a sheet of plywood is around $100/ea. Luckily if found Midwest Boat Appeal in St Bonifacius and met the owner Andy, a great resource, after visiting with Andy I select BS1088 Okume plywood, 9 mil for the bottom and 6 mil for the sides.
After that decision was made I the had to figure out out to scarf together the two sheets (you need 4' x 16' sheets to make the boat). After looking at every video I could find on youtube I decided that the method of scarfing the plywood that would work best for me was to purchase a West Systems scarfing jig and mount it on my circular saw.
And as you can see by the next photo after a few practice runs on some scrap luan plywood it did a fine job.
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