I did some work on the hull this weekend. Not much as all I did was get the keel glued to all the bulkheads (frames). I tried to form the chine stringer at the chine line to conform to the bow curved section but the spruce wood is too hard and stiff to bend properly. One of the hazards of kit wood.

Each chine strip is actually two pieces of 1/4 x 1/4 square spruce, angle spliced to make it long enough.

I actually broke the splice joint when I tried to see if the short end (after the splice) would bend more than the longer end. That put a lot of tension on the splice and it failed. Mostly a glue failure but some wood. That means the splice wasn’t all that good anyway. I never would have found it and it wouldn’t have been a critical joint near the mid section anyway, but now I get to do a “do over”. I probably squeezed too much epoxy out of the original joint.