> Have I missed something here? when lofting the guillemot from my copy of
> Nick Schades book I can't really get the end forms to fit the forms
> closest to them i.e. 2 and 15. For example the second forms deck peak is
> 6.44 and keel -0.41 and the bow forms 0" position top 6.45 and bottom
> -0.68 I can just see that the 2nd form is missing 0.27" at the bottom
> or have I neglected something? What to do?

I had the same problem. Emailed Nick, and in the early editions of the book there are some bad numbers in the keel on stations 1/2 and 15 as I recall. Will repost from home tonight, I have his response there.

> Does anyone have some good tricks when it comes to aligning the end forms
> to the strongback? I find this part of the building process a bit
> intimidating.

I'm clueless here, haven't got that far. Good luck!