I tried it both ways just to see how much now that I'm such a pro with my glue gun that there's now more glue than wood on the boat.

I've developed a preference for working with the full length strips seeing as I'm in absolutely in no rush to finish this step. I'm really enjoying this part of the process. I plane the strip testing fit between 3 stations, and I go a couple feet at a time.

Canoodling this wood with an $11 plane a micro thin strip at a time is oddly satisfying when after the 10th swipe, it just locks into place...first world problem here - a few joints were so well mated that I couldn't see the line and missed it completely with my glue gun.

I've got 4 strips on one side done and moving to the other side...then I have to figure out what to do with the keel. I read both techniques on this but I'm having trouble visualizing this step.

One other useless piece of information...I finished 2 strips while my son napped in his sling on me :) something about that planing sound that put him to sleep in seconds :)

Oh and by the by...I gently separated that nose strip - re-planed the surfaces then glued it back in fair to the outside surface. I didn't even bother with another piece of wood internally or externally, we're talking like a 1/16th of an inch so I'm not going to sweat it.

My Veritas honing guide came today...and like a dummy I watched that peter sellers video (why do I torture myself like this), tried it, and unsurprisingly was shocked to see how well that pane of glass and some loaded pallet wood worked...ah well what can you do. The honing guide works a lot better than my $11 one though so I have that going for me.