7 strips have been installed on each side (6 cherry + 1 basswood).
Strip # 7 marks the start of the most difficult area to plank on the canoe's "mid-ship" section: from the sides (vertical) towards the bottom of the canoes where the planking progressively runs more or less horizontal . From there, the strip need to be twisted form the center (horizontal) area to the front and back (vertical),
The strips being oversize make it slightly more difficult than usual. Until this rounded area is covered with the planking, it looks like the best approach is to give a slight bevel to the strips edge to reduce creating a large gap on the outside face of the canoe: which is something that is normally not needed.
Although I will post something (sometimes today) about this in the support section related to planking, here are a couple of images showing the progress on this 19-inch model.
So all this means a lot more scraping / sanding later once the planking is done.
G.