In teaching hundreds of students to build boats, Chris has learned that one of the most common errors in attaching a deck is getting it a little off center. Novice builders are nervous at the prospect of tackling this major step and sometimes don't pay enough attention to positioning it. In addition, they may have made their hull a little too wide or too narrow. By leaving an inch or so extra wood around the deck and cockpit, no harm comes from these errors, and it only takes a few minutes with a handsaw to trim off the excess. A multi-chine deck is made of several small pieces joined with fiberglass.
Some designs use many pieces in trying to imitate the shape of a cambered deck.
One builder even calls their decks cambered when, in fact, they are made up of small pieces. Always check a photo of the boat if you're not sure if it has a true cambered deck. But a multi-chine deck lacks the inherent strength of the arch shape. The photo below shows a CLC North Bay with a cambered deck and radically upswept bow. This is a number used to describe just how cambered a deck is.