: My teenage son and I are each building a kayak. I am building a Great Awk and
: he is building a Guillemot. I am a little further than he is, but progress
: is being made. Or, I should say, progress was being made. I screwed up and
: we must start over on his boat.

: We are using half-width strips to work our way around the chines of the
: Guillemot. We have 5 regular strips leading up from the shear line to the
: chines and then switch to narrow strips. They work great at working across
: the chine. However, the problem I had was in using these strips at the bow
: and stern. I need to bend the strips to follow the curve of the boat and
: twist the strips to line them up with the previous strip and the stem. The
: twisting is the problem. The narrow strips don't clamp very well and there
: is little width to staple. In my screw-up, the strips un-twisted while the
: glue was drying. This caused the strips to be grossly out of alignment.

: Since relatively little work had been invested so far, I didn't want to
: "work around" my error. We made the collective decision to strip
: off the strips already put on the boat and start over.

: The problem is this. I don't know how to avoid the problem again. I sure
: could use some wise counsel from the members.

: Thanks.
: Chuck

On my boat I used a flat waxed string, tape, nails, tie wraps, whatever worked. to wrap around the difficult section. I had to wait for the glue to set but it worked out. Maybe some cheaters would help.

Good luck and happy building!