Sounds like y'all are catching the invent a new way of doing things bug.

It is good mental exercise, but no doubt common sense should prevail as eruttan said.

I have done couple ply on stringer and frame boats then i did the HP El in strip planked kiri.

The shapes were completely different. Hard chine with flat panels for thd ply boats and round smooth curves and oval like cross sections for HP. These round shapes add to the overall strength, so no stringers needed in the strp planked HP. Not so sure how different the new flat, straight designs are for strenght, but the old HP lw hulls were very strong looking and feeling.

Doug