Jack and I discussed and agreed on the best path forward to repair the construction error I had made and discussed in the previous post. I very happy that Jack noticed the error prior to my completly covering the hull with upper and lower skins.

I used a router and cut away the lower skin to expose the area between the nose block and midway between bulkheads 2 and 3. Using the router again a pocket was cut into the nose block to accept the splice and the terminal end of the lower keel stringer was prepared for a splice. A new piece of wood was rough cut to extend the the keel stringer from the nose back into the existing keel stringer. It took some rough planeing and sanding to get a good fit and finally a first coat of epoxy was applied followed by a thickened coat and some rocks from the garden to appy weight during the cure. Today I'll apply a new skin to the repair area.

From this misadventure I suggest to everyone building a J boat : read and re-read the plans and instructions and "measure twice, cut once".  ed.c