Ok we need a little more info. If you are stripping the hull and following the original instructions in the book then you will get your strips to follow the contour of the stern end form and let it hang out past the form. The strip coming down the opposite side is fit to this overhanging strip. The next strip up the overhanging strip is on the opposite side You will have to cut a small cove in the lower strip and fit the next one into it if your using bead and cove.

I did my first boat that way and in the end shaved the tips back and put a strip up the face of the strips. This time I am using an internal/external stem and am liking it better

: I am having some difficulty with the ends of the guillemot I am trying to
: build. Namely, I am just not quite catching on to how to make them come
: together. (I do have Nick's book) Any ideas, suggestions, clarifications?