Alan's Bloodvein II

[Gamma1214]

Sure was. I'm still a little freaked out by it and I can now see why you throw a filet inside in that area.

Honestly, I was going to round them off hard but the bow is pretty high, the chine runs out pretty far and I'm wondering if that was part of the problem I ran into on the Merlin. I know for sure that 3rd strip laid in there much more easily than the 2nd did (now that it wasn't forced to twist radically)

 

[JohnNevets]

If I'm understanding both what you did, and the directions in the Kite plans, I think you handled the hard chine the same way they describe to do it there. Run past, and than butt up to it. Looks like it worked, and it's something I'll be dealing with in a bit as well.

 

[memaquay]

I think I've built six or seven solo's with the hard chine, and I never once did it that way. I've done it a few ways, but one of the most effective was to just start the first strip right at the chine, so that the strip above it would still fit in the bead and cove. Then I planked down to the gunwale, sometimes adjusting the width of the gunwale strip on the fly, sometimes when it was off the stations.