This past week I've been working on the lift strakes that run along the bottom of the boat. The pieces were first cut from some un-surfaced 12' 5/4" thick Oak boards. After cutting them out, they had to be cut along the width of each piece to get the right angle along the bottom of the boat. This was done w/ a jig on the band saw. One of the bands aw blades actually broke which set me back a few days.
Attaching them to the boat was a lot of work. I had to hand plane the front taper so that they attached to boat alright. Fitting them along the front of the boat particularly hard. The reason for the trouble is that the lift strake were attached to the lengthwise structural beams which stopped short of the front of the hull where the lift strakes ended. Here's a few pictures. In the First you can see where the underlying beams stop. In the remaining pictures you can see the list strakes after they were finished today.
