: 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?

Something similar happens with the Shooting Star. I set the first deck strip to overlap the hull--actually hanging over--and then blended them with a power sander. I think that would work for the Auk. I would make sure that both hull and deck strips were from the same board.