Stringers and Transom are on !

 Stringers and transom are on...

After a lot of adjusting the frames on the strong-back, I was finally happy all was straight and true. My first measurements from the transom to the bow showed a difference of 15mm between the sides. It took a few days of tweaking and adjusting to get the same measurements both sides. The biggest reason was two of the frames were out of parallel and I 

Here's the usual rogues gallery of progress pictures.

The stringers took a lot of twisting and bending towards the bow. Several times I slowly tightened a Spanish windlass arrangement and I waited for a crack or split, but none happened. Even the scarf joints held !

Each stringer was put on and taken off several times and I always put them on as pairs, to balance the pressure on both sides. Once, I put on a middle heavy stringer, on one side and immediately could see two of the frames move slightly. So from then on, every thing went on as pairs, from transom to bow.