: HI There,

: I'm building Tom Yost's Sea Flea with and for my son. At the
: weekend we setup the frames on a strongback and wrapped the
: stringers around. I had a couple of goes to get everything
: looking fair, but when I took the temporarily screwed and lashed
: frame of the stongback I had some major springback of the keel.
: Basically the resulting frame has no rocker which leaves the
: gunwales with a bit of a kink. The chine stringers seemed to
: have the hardest bend in them, and I think they are
: 'overpowering' the lesser bend in the keel and gunwales.

: Does it sound like I've done something obviously wrong? Does
: anybody have any tips on how I can rescue the build?

: Regards,
: Andy.

Pretty much normal, have to pull the keel down to it's proper position which will hold the rocker until the frames are attached to the gunwales and stringers. I normally use long drywall screws, one on each side of the keel to do this. Has to be away from the frames and sometimes you need to do this in a couple of spots to hold the rocker called for on the plans. Once the frames are attached to the stringers/gunwales/keel the rocker will be set and you can procede.

As Dave mentioned, sometimes it's far easier to do this if the chines are removed temporarily.

Bill H.