: ok yeah the plans do talk about determining the length as in how
: easy the chines can be bent to the center line.... leaves a lot
: of room and I still have no eye for this, in short I am afraid
: of messing it up! Guess i will take a deep breathe.........

Yost's plans. All the details are there, though they are spread around on all of the boat plans. You have to look at all the building plans, not just the one you're building. It's a hazard of free plans, no point in Tom wasting space and time writing up the details for each boat plan when he makes nothing at all for this.

Just look at the side view of the design, figure out where the keel flattens out, it's where the keel ends and the stem begins. The shape isn't real important, on a Greenland boat it's just a straight line and looks fine. The tip design is in the plans, several ways to do that. I do make a flat on the stems parrellel to the keel and above the keel a couple inches, makes it much easier to clamp the stem to the keel while the glue dries.

Bill H.