I am going to go out and start the heater and get the barn warming up. I will drink another cup of coffee and go and and lay on more strip down, and then start working on the keel strips.
Ill post more after I get the keel strips laid.
I have not been to a boat building school, I am reading four different books and the best I can tell there is no magic number to putting on the keel strips. When it gets to a point that they lay right, on the Hull strips, that is when the keel strips need to go down.
I have re read the chapters on hull and keel strips, as well as I have also looked at several blog post, and it appears to be like anything else with strip building a kayak, there is a hundred different ways to do the keel strip, but basically when the side start rolling up and in, when it fits, put it on.
The one major difference is, the last little bit of the keel strip will have a much great bevel to the keel strip as you try to fold the two strips together and down a hair. I will also say I have seen one last night on a boat builders blog and it appears that guy used a single piece on his keel, but the bottom of my yack has a bevel to it from stern to bow. So I will be using the two strips laying in the previous post.
I took my time on the keel, I wanted to triple be sure it went on straight, I also second guessed myself 8-9 times trying to figure out the best way to get it all contacted up front even knowing it will eventually be covered by the outer hardwood stem.
Working on the football tomorrow.
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