I have selected the "Great Auk" kayak as my first attempt at strip builting. I will be hand beveling the strips with a block plane.I have lofted the offsets to produce my forms and have decided to go with the radiused edge on the deck where it meets the shear line. At the bow and stern the radius will reduce in size to eventually become an angular intersection of the deck and the hull.

I plan on placing a full width strip along the shear line on the hull side. Now my questions are:

1/ How do I strip the begining of the deck at the sheer line, when there is a generous radius at the center of the kayak the gets increasingly smaller and eventually becomes an angular joint towards the bow and stern?
2/ Should I tapper the width of the first few deck strips as the radius gets smaller?