I got the stem laminated up and mounted to the bow!

This follows building all the skeg up and then extending the two-layer keel forward nearly all the way to the bow.

This leaves a "gap" to fill that goes around a rather interesting curve. I wasn't quite sure how I was going to fill this... the designer just specifies cutting a piece to fill it.

OK ... we broke out the craft paper and Dane held it up and I drew around the curve. Picked up an 8' section of 5/4 pine stairtread. 5/4 means it's fully 1" thick instead of the normal 3/4" that a 1x would measure. Two layers of 5/4 on edge and laminated together gives me the 2" for the width of the keel, and enough width to fill in the gap.

Got that mounted up with a load of epoxy. I know it looks like and icebreaker right now, but it will get trimmed to a fair curve to go from the stem to the keel line. I embedded a couple of half-driven screws into the bottom of this piece, extending into the "filler" epoxy between the hull panels. This will provide a bit more reinforcement to that joint, I believe.