Hello I am also building a yukon have the forms on and strips ready Don`t know how to post pic but can email them?? Does someone show how to bevel the stem and stern or just eyeball it. Can someone send a pic of the stem and stern with first few strips also what degree bevel for first strips?Really having a hard start had my forms on now and don`t have the first strip on yet. This is my first boat was hoping to race it this spring but don`t look like it.

For stems I have used both internal/external stems and alternating the bevel on the strips such that they meet with no internal or external stem. The Great Auk I am working on is built with no stems, however I did spoon in some highly thickened epoxy into the internal aspect of the bow and stern to create internal stems.

The Yukon will be my fourth yak, but I understand that the sheer on this boat can be tricky. In the past I have simply run the sheer strips through the table saw with a 45 degree bevel and put them on the forms. The gaps have been virtually non-existent and the internal aspect of the joint is filled with resin/glass.

Posting pictures can be an enigma. I found that I could not post pics on my home laptop, The "Upload another file? [Browse...] line did not appear. Paradoxically this line would appear on my computers at work. I used used Internet Explorer at home and. I went to Mozilla Firefox at home (for another reason) and found that the "Upload another file? [Browse...] line is now present.