Stem. Again.

After having a  closer look at the drawings, in particular at the stem I decided I screwed up and made the laminated pine too thin and the wrong profile alltogether. In my defense the drawings are a bit vague on the exact shape of that particular piece.
While in Germany tending to other business, pillaging through the timber section of a large German hardware store, I found some perfectly dimensioned boards of Douglas fir, a well known north american species valued by boat builders for good rot resistance, strength-to-weight ratio and it's ability to hold fasteners (I think). All in all a good deal, especially since the reddish color will match the okume plywood way better than the pine board ever could.
So, I brought back three boards and cut out what I think will be a much better stem. I will make a deadwood and a stem cover out of the remaining 2 boards. Here's how it looks like next to the old one:

BTW, I managed to cut it short by 15mm on the deck side... not a big deal, but still annoying. For some reason adding 90mm to 90mm  resulted in 160mm, in my head that is. I feel more and more errors will be creeping in, so I'll slow down a bit. And I'll use a calculator from now on.

That is now done and progress is being booked in the area of fitting the longitudinals. I have stated in a previous post I believe it will be much less time consuming, easy even. Boy, was I wrong... I will give an update once the first batch is all glued up and ready to be plated. For now it looks like this:

cheers.