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Thanks for that, Gavin. I've been looking at some of Mik Storers designs and you're right, they might well adapt well to a boat like this.
Having been giving it some more thought, though, I'm not sure I really like the flat bottom going right to the bow. I know that the late Phil Bolger made many very good boats like this, but there's something aesthetically pleasing about having a nicer bow shape.
I noticed the neat way that Mik Storer fitted small skegs at the bow and stern of his Quick Canoe, to make it track well and give it a bit nicer appearance when viewed side on. This gave me an idea (and yes, it is as wacky as making a boat from aluminium tubes and fabric.......). I have a couple of sheets of 3mm ply and at least one, maybe two, sheets of 1" thick insulation foam, left over from lining a covered aircraft trailer years ago.
I'm wondering if I could make a flat bottomed, Bolger-like, hull, around 12 to 14ft long, using 1" foam sheet (suitably epoxy glassed on both sides) as the bottom panel. I know it will be more than strong enough and it should also be light (and add around 50kg of built in buoyancy). I could use the ply for the sides, with more glassed foam as the transom and full or part bulkheads. The ply would be bonded to the bottom panel in the same way as a stitch and glue boat, with glassed joints. This would give a very stiff and strong bottom panel that would also be well-insulated from the water, so making it a better proposition for sleeping in.
If I was to then bond a keel strake at the bow, going back maybe 1/3 down the hull, rather like Mik Storers quick canoe, and then bond additional foam to the flat bit of the hull either side of it, I could sand the extra foam down to get a nicer transition from the flat run aft to a shapely bow. A layer of glass cloth over the whole lot and some filling and sanding and it should end up looking quite nice and yet still be simple to build and light. The glass over foam method is the same as I used for the stem and transom on Aero, so I know its quick and easy to do.
The big problem is that, now I've started thinking about this boat I want to have a go and build it. Like some others I have too many boats and don't think I can get away with building yet another one very easily.............
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