: It came to me this morning that the forms just look high because the deck on
: the stern is lower and I was using the strips frome the shear lind as the
: refrence point. still love sugestions on that second to last form.

: sage

On my boats the next to the last stations sometimes appear high to people too.

What's happening is that the keel strips are going from horizontal to vertical at the stems. As each keel strip makes that twist, these strips go from butting edges, to running side by side AND running above the last station to make contact for glue-up. You have to make a rolling bevel to achieve this. The next to last stations force the strips to contact at roughly a 45 degree angle and then the strips are almost vertical with 50% of their width needed for gluing contact. This means the strips, while nearly flat on the next to last station, jut up about 3/8" above the last/or stem station. This makes the next to last stations look high.

Making the rolling bevel needed to mate the keel strips at the stems is not hard, but the problem is, with the bevel taking 50% of the strip width at the stems, there is not much strip left to contact the station.

What I suggest in my plans it to forget the rolling bevel and just, split the keel strips at the stems, leaving a gap at the top of the stem and place the full strip width against the station at the keel. Then you can go back a fill this gap with scrap strips. This eliminates the rolling bevel and makes holding the strip to the stem station easy.

The next to last stations on my designs look higher even after stripping the keel, because I go back later to fill this gap by adding strips pieces on top of the stems

All the best,

Rob Macks
Laughing Loon CC&K
www.LaughingLoon.com