Some typos made it into the first printing of the book. The link below contains the fixes.

> 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?

> 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.

Try not to be intimidated. Assemble the endforms with the sectional forms that they touch and then put them in place. It will become more clear what you need to do once you have the pieces in front of you.