Hey all!

Im plan-building a chesapeake 17LT.

What's the best? cut up the 4x8' sheets and scarf the long thin blanks together  (16, 5 feet long) than mark all the offsets and start sawing?

Or mark up all offset in on the seperate sheets, saw the out and than scarf the together? I guess the 2nd option doesnt make much sense does it?

Than i have another question. Im having trouble interpeting the plans stations/dimensions..in the plans offsets drawing the look at the transition from station 8 to 9 the dimensions seem to skip the 1-1/4" scarf? Station 8 stops at the RH dashline indicating the scarf, but from this line measuring towards station 9 makes it also 12" from this RH dashline to station 9..so what are the two dashlines indicating? I would assume the LH line indicates the end the "middle" sheet, and the RH dashline indicates the end of the "forward"/bow sheet. But measuring from the LH dashline to the station 9 line measures over 12" (allthough the drawing is on scale).. Looking at the image showing all panels marked up on the ply-sheets, I see that station 8 till 9 is excatly 12" and not 12" + 1-1/4 for the scarf..same goes for station line 7 till 8 (end of the first bow-blank..)

I'm affraid i'll end up with a 17LT minus 1-1/4 instead of good 17LT measuring 16'11"...:)

somebody help:)

Thnx Andrew (Holland)