Josa - go to your Big Box Store (Lowe's/Home Depot)
and get you a few sheets of the white PVC boards.
it is about 1/16" thick, firm but yet flexible enough to make you a pattern.
also get some of the really thick paper used to cover new floors with.
48" wide roll - some big pieces of cardboard, a bunch of 1/4" lattice, yada yada yada
Also, if there is a sign shop near you, see if they will you sell you some
1/4" Coro-Plast material. It is what they use for the roadside bootleg signs.
4'x8' sheets and very cheap. Especially if they have some used ones on hand.
It is like 1/4" thick plastic cardboard.
then, lay it all out on your garage floor, with a box of sharpie markers,
start on your pattern - duct tape sticks really good to the PVC sheet and paper.
hot melt glue will hold the wood lattice sticks and cardboard in place.
then, you can figure out how you want your bow to look and go from there.
let it sit for a day or two, come back and fine tune your pattern.
NOBODY here is trying to talk you out of your project !!!!
just trying to lend some knowledge to guide you in the right direction.
Remember - Rome was not built in a day !!!
and if I had an aluminum welder and the floor space, I would be doing the same thing.
- BUT - I would have gobs of books scattered all over the house on how to do it.
not figuring it out as I go along - my pockets aren't that deep.
And like Rob said, I would wear out the internet and YouTube on how
others have ventured into a similar project.
My father was a master of just about every skill there is.
He singlehandly built 4 wooden boats in his younger days.
One in particular was a 12' plywood V hull that he made a foldable
tent frame for it. He and my mother went up the St. Johns River
from Sanford, FL, across Lake Monroe up to Lake George, and actually
crossed Lake George which is several miles of open water..... To Welaka to restock the pantry.
Then, cut back across the lake to go up the Oklawaha River for a couple of days, then,
return back the same way. all this in a 12' homemade wooden skiff with
a 1948 Scott Atwater 10hp outboard motor. Only two seat cushions for life preservers.
My brother and I were only toddlers at that time so we stayed home with grandmother.
When we were about 10-12 years old, (in 1956) we all made the same trip again in another
14' (better built) wooden boat with a newer/heftier motor and it was a BLAST !!!
fishing, swimming and boating for a whole week !!!! You just can't get that in Summer Camp.
I hope that you can achieve the same satisfying results with your build
that my dad did with his. GOOD LUCK !!!
your "plan B" might be to find a hull that you really like.
chop it up and modify it to suit your needs.
Since you have the shop, tools, and equipment to make a boat,
modifying one may be half the work and twice the fun.