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Fair American 1:48 by Model Expo

Maybe study some planking expansion drawings to get a feel for the lay of the garboard strake. They all show the shape of the garboard and how it ends at the boxing joint, not up onto the stem like in the photos above.
Allan

Inboard and outboard planking expansion. You can see that the garboard ends at the forward end of the boxing joint
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First thing I’ll need to do is learn what a boxing joint is ROTF
 
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