I started on my Prospector 16" and lofted the plans from Canoecraft.
I set up the mold, built the stems and up until now everything worked very well.
When shaping the Stem, i realized that there is a big gap between the contact surface of the inner stem and the contact surface of station 7.
(See first picture).
The contours of the stem contact surface and of the station 7 don't align well, so there must be something wrong.
In order to align the stem contour with the station contour, I'd either have to move the station up by approx 1/2" or the station had to be wider by approx 1".
What I did so far to in terms of error checking:
- I checked for errors when reading the table from the book
- I checked all measures of the station & stem
- I checked whether i deducted the hull thickness from the station correctly
- I checked whether the station is too low (too close to the strongback)
- I checked whether i deducted too much/too little from the stem mold when cutting station 7 in halfes
- I checked the distance from station 7 to station 6
Obviously, i didn't find any error or significant inprecision yet (all measures are within +- 1mm tolerance)
So... Do you have any hints what may be wrong? Is this normal and i should just carry on living that some strips don't touch station 7? (I read somewhere in this forum that some people just ignore station 7 at all.)
Should i change station 7 to follow the "logical" curve of the hull?
I attached some more images to give you a better overview of the situation.
Thank you for your support and happy easter from the black forest in Germany,
Bastian
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