Thanks for your comments and suggestions. I was looking at the boat today and realized that at some point in time someone had taken the top off of the kayak and put it back on. The ovelap is lined with sheet meal screws and the drilled holes that apparently were the origional holes were filled in with caulk of some sort. Is this common, or did they do it to facilitate converting the foot pedals to stationary? There also is no indication of ever having a skeg or rudder on it. Strange, why would someone go through the trouble to take the top half off? Also would any one be interested in using the template (wood pieces) to make your own replica antique Folbot? I saved all the pieces and it would be fun and relatively easy to build your own. I cut out the new pieces and used PVC as the side ribs (I don't know why) and am looking for a nice stretch material to wrap it in. I have found shower liner rubber for about $100 I might use. It needs to be durable to handle Missouri streams.