Outer Island, Laminating External Stems
		I spent an hour each night, 9/2, 9/3 and 9/4, laminating the external stem pieces.  On 9/5, I sanded and hand planed the stems to roughly the final shape.  This took about 2 hours.
		This is a picture of the bow after trimming most of the waste off with a saw and after a block plane was used to plane the bow even with the internal stem piece.			In this view, the internal stem is visible.  Also note the gap between the strips at the keel.  The gap extends about 18" from form #2.  I planed the area flat so that the external stem will cover this area.
		A 1/4" thick cypress strip was bent over the bow and stern as the first layer of the external stem laminations.  Heat applied to the strip with a heat gun made the strip easier to bend.  Heat was only necessary on the tightest bend where the bow and stern meet the keel.  If I would have used a thinner strip, it wouldn't have been necessary.
					The strip looks a little off along the keel, but it covers the critical area.  Most of the strip will be removed when the hull is faired.
					This is a picture of the lamination prior to shaping.
		Three layers of approximately 1/8" thick ash was laminated to the previously applied cypress strip.  No heat was necessary.
		This picture shows the bow stem after rough shaping with a 4 1/4" grinder and a block plane.  The grinder is fast, but one slip could gouge the wood.