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After the formers have been properly adjusted, I started to clamp frames, floor timbers and bulkheads onto the formers.

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... proudly presenting the hightechcenterboardcasespreadinggauge

... oops! - "No more desasters - please ..."

quickly mount vertical support pieces, so that the formers can't move, even under the pressure of keel and/or stringers.

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Next thing was to work out the bevel of all parts with plane & file. I used a piece of chalk to mark the surface of floor timbers and bulkheads. Then I started to take off material in the desired angle until I first touched the formers.

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The keel material was delivered in stripes of 120 x 5 mm and 150 x 5 mm oak. For deck stringer and bilge stringer I first applied the scarf to the small side of a whole sheet of 5mm plywood, then cut stripes of 55mm and 45mm respectively. All strips were glued to final length using epoxy resin and additives.

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Having the keel planks scarfed to full lenght I marked the maximum width at each frame location, drew up a curve using a flexible batten and cut the strips into shape.

A bending test unvealed that I had two ugly sharp bends, so I constructed a new template for the bow section.

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In order not to glue the frames onto the formers I covered them with tape and plastic sheets.

Then I glued the first keel strip onto frames and floor timbers ...

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... followed by three layers of inner keel plus three layers of outer keel.

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A word about vices: I now have about 120 pieces, and I need them all ...

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After removing the vices from the stem former the stem section bent back about 13mm - which I think is a good value.

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A few extra layers were added to leave enough material for the rabbet.

Forming the rabbet ...

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... was a very sweattening process for plane and chisel. I was just too anxious to use the cutter.

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Glueing the bilge stringer and deck stringer was a comparatively easy job to do, ...

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the lathe left to the keel was used as a guide for sawing the slot for the centerboard.

... and the most time consuming job was to tighten and remove the vices.

After that FLAME has come in a state where I went to cut, scarf and mount the planks. In before of course keel and stringers were properly sanded.

I got used to the habbit to start important project steps by having a break, stepping back a little, thinking over the next steps, and enjoy the feeling of having come that far. I took a lot of energy and motivation out of such moments.