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With a dark marker pen or pencil make a mark exactly in the centre of the batten positions where they were laying on the bulkhead. This will give you one mark to work from on each bulkhead band rather than two where the batten used to lay. It is much easier than having to add or subtract half the width of the batten from your calculations as you advance. Figure 10 shows you what you should have regarding the markings mentioned above.

Commence at the second band as in, the first is the garboard plank band and will be dealt with later. If you wish to start with the garboard plank move to that section now and come back to this section later after the garboard has been cut and fitted.

Using masking tape or reasonably stiff paper card carefully place the card at the first marking on the bulkhead away from the keel as in figure 11. Lay the card around the bulkhead and on the card mark the 2nd position of the planking band. Measure this distance on the card with a ruler and transfer the measurement to the graph shown in figure 11A. This measurement should appear in the lower left hand box 2nd from the bottom if working from the stern, I might point out that it is easier working from the stern to the stem. Moving forward in the same band, mark on the tick-strip the width of this band at bulkhead number 7. Again measure this tick strip marking and again transfer it to the graph at the second box from the bottom of the graph at number 7 bulkhead. Carry out this operation on all bulkheads on either side. You will obviously need two separate graphs to record all the band measurements for both sides of the hull.

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