High there, I would like to build a small plywood tender. To be sailed, rowed or sculled. What wood be a good design.
LA Lancer

Check out John Welsford designs, he's bound to have something you need or want.

www.jwboatdesigns.co.nz/Index.html

This is the one I'm thinking of building over winter;

www.sailingcatamarans.com/index.php/designs/1-beach-cats-and-dinghies-/420-duo-10ft-sailrow-d

The designer is extremely experienced at designing and building and is a former national dinghy champ, so he's got a great track record and knows dinghy design.

With respect, that Zen seems to be one of those boats where the designer ignores all the lessons that tens of thousands of dinghy sailors have been learning for decades. The hull and rig seem wrong in so many ways, from section shape to gunwale and rig design, when compared to what has been learned in classes like Moths, Merlins, NS14s, Cherubs and skiffs. Just IMHO.