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Strip: Lost my rocker? *PIC*
By:Thor
Date: 5/7/2013, 7:06 pm

After I fiberglassed the outside of the hull I noticed that my bow stem form had lifted about 3/8" and my stern about 1/8". I figured it was too late to do anything and have the deck almost stripped. I am wondering what this will do to the handling, or tracking.

Does anyone have any suggestions about things to improve this? If I spread the hull slightly at the bow will it lift? My first thought was to just ignore it, but there is so much experience and knowledge here maybe someone will have expierenced this, and at the least others can learn the importance of screwing all forms securely to the strongback.

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Strip: Lost my rocker? *PIC*
Thor -- 5/7/2013, 7:06 pm
Re: Strip: Lost my rocker?
Allan -- 5/7/2013, 7:24 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 5/7/2013, 10:39 pm
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Thor -- 5/8/2013, 12:04 am
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Etienne Muller -- 5/8/2013, 3:32 am
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Thor -- 5/8/2013, 7:16 pm
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robert l -- 5/8/2013, 11:16 pm
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Mark Vander Horck -- 5/9/2013, 4:14 pm