10) Rounding the Bilge

Once I got to the bilge (the round transition from the side of the canoe to the bottom) I could only continue stripping one side of the boat. The reason for this is that the strips start intersecting each other. Rounding the bilge forced the strips to contort into some pretty gnarley angles. More times than I would like, the stress of the strips pulled the staples out of the forms, forcing me to put 2 or 3 staples where I would normally put one. Oh well, this is the first time I have ever built a boat... I guess there has to be a learning curve.