: Radius chine construction :)

: Gives a sort of round bottom look to a boat while not being totally
: round bottom.

: I did the same thing sorta on a Tom Yost Sea Bee, part stripped and
: part SOF.

: Bill H.

Spent a few days over the last few days trying to build out stems. Never had to build them quite like this before, they are loong 30". I ended up doing them over as on the first pair the foot was too narrow to hold the strips securely. I hadn't realised that, due to the way the round chines continue all the way to the stem, the bevel would roll much further round the stem than normal so the foot needed to be shallow and wide. It messed up my design calculations. The bevel starts on the side at the cut-water and ending up on the bottom of the foot, a full 90 deg.

On my next design I may make the entry narrower, allowing the strips to twist, to reduce the amount of work involved. It would be nice if the bevel angle was constant so it could be routed: I wonder how that would work out on the hull shape?

I went through several ways of cutting the bevel; turned out the best and fastest was my trusty (Japanese) chisel which carved the wood like cheese; a bit easier than cheese actually. I wasted a lot of time with a pullsaw, plane, power sander etc. It would have been easier with a spokeshave, although it's hard to get a decent one, or a drawknife which are expensive and hard to get period!

Ignoring the failed effort the pair took me about 6 hours, including lofting and working out how to mark the bevels so I could precut them. There'll be a little trimming after they are mounted but I got about 90% of the work done, I think. If someone had asked me how long they should take, I would have said a couple of hours max. Ignorance was bliss, but knowledge is good too! I have read several books on boatbuilding and they went into a lot of detail in other areas but didn't say much about stems.