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Wow you guys! Thanks so much for the help. Your sketchup model looks great Sugabaker. I'll see if I can get somewhere similar and if I can't I'll just start cutting and make adjustments like action tiger suggested. I think that the mistake I made was to plot the bow/stem pieces on their own and squared off the last coordinate with the Y axis at a right angle. It looks to me like you made a curve down from the point to meet the deckline of the station, which if I'm interpreting that correctly, makes total sense. Thanks again for all of your input, I'll keep you all posted on the build and thank you Jeff for the plans!

Hi Sugarbaker, thanks so much for looking into this for me. I still can't figure out how to upload an image but even without sketchup, when I add up the absolute heights on paper (Z AXIS) of the fore and aft stations and the bow and stern pieces, the bow and stern are too big. Banging my head against the wall and sitting in the moaning chair haven't helped either.

Hi there sugarbaker and thread. I have begun lofting the nimrod in sketchup and have run into the same problem. The bow and the stern pieces hang off of the fore and aft stations by 1 5/64" and 13/32 respectively. When I lined up the bow I thought it might be to accomodate the keel and deck stringers but then I saw that the stern is off by a different amount. What am I doing wrong? I lofted the bow and keel the same way I did the frames. However the finished height off of the "X" is way too low to use as an elevation off of the strongback, so I just lined up the bow/stern pieces to the stations along the deck-line. No matter what though, the bow and stern are just too big. Did I loft wrong? I must be missing something... I have screenshots but I can't figure out how to post photos. Thanks in advance for any help I can get, I can't wait to get started on the cutting.