: Glen

: Thanks for the pix and comment. Yes, I know this now. At the time I was
: preparing the stem I thought I was shaving off a ton and became very
: cautious. The caution has now left me with the wide stems. I don't want to
: throw all the work I did away (I believe it can be adjusted) and wondered
: if ripping up the center of the stem to remove the excess would indeed
: work. Part of me sees the sides of the hull flying apart from each other,
: on the other hand just removing material from the middle of the stem and
: re-attaching the seperated pieces seems like an answer. Otherwise I'm
: going to have a snubby bow which won't cut through the water well.

My tuppance coming up

If you are happy with the hull shape in general I wouldn't worry too much. The entry point for a normal sea state is quite far down toward the keel in any case. I you wanted a finer entry you could possibly laminate an extra inch, or two even, of timber onto your stem and refine your bow sharpness that way. You could vary the timber colours and make a feature of it that looks deliberate even.

To aid with the above you could add a bit of filleting or even some veneer or some short half thickness strip lengths to the hull around the inner stem and plane and sand the hull strips a lot thinner where they converge at the pointy end. Or just reinforce the thinned area with a couple of extra layers of glass.

Et