I've had some difficulty in setting up the forms for the Outer Island. In getting the boat to my idea of 'fair' when the first shear strips were laid, I had to move the forms quite a bit. I wrote Jay Babina, the designer, and he said that in some cases the strip needs to be 'pushed in' to the form. In other words, the strip is supposed to have a convex shape, then bend back inward to a concave shape at one form, then go back to convex. My first shear strips touch forms 7 and 9 (just fore of the cockpit) but don't touch form 8. Does this make sense? I thought that the shear should move continually outward from the bow to the middle of the boat (approximately), then back inward toward the stern. Any thoughts? I'm leery of starting to strip with the forms in either the designed position or my own 'fair' position until I get this figured out...

Dean