The first thing I did was to rip the 4x8 sheets of 4mm marine plywood into (4) 2x8 sheets. I then scarfed the ends with 1:10 bevels with a handplane then epoxied them together with thickened (colloidal silica) epoxy. My bevels were not perfect and the joint is less than great on one piece.
The next step is to layout the strips. My boat has 10 strips: 5 mirror image pairs. The plans I have listed points every foot to define the curve of the strips. Basically, I needed to plot points on the plywood. First I stacked and clamped the two large pieces of plywood on top of each other. I then "plotted" the points from the plans with small wire nails. After marking and driving about 140 nails, I then moved on to lofting.
I then used the nails as little clamping posts to hold a 16 foot piece of window molding to the nails and drew a nice, fair line the length of the planks. Once all the planks are marked, it was time to start cutting.
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