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After a few transatlantic flights, I've managed to the roughly sketch body plan across the relevant planes set along station lines.  I ended up going back to the patch workspace instead of t-splines as the ability to edit edit and adjust far out-weights the smoothing ability.
 
I've ended up using projected points from the relevant half-breadth and sheer sketches combined with construction lines to establish bounds of the geometry.  Unfortunately it looks a little noisy in the screen capture.
 



 
I tried using splines but quickly became frustrated and went back to using arcs and tangent constraints.  Originally I used 4-5 arc segments for some but once I discovered the zebra analysis and repeatedly adjusted the curves for fairness, it became apparent that as few arcs as possible will result in improved fairness.
 
 

 
While still can be improved, if I keep continuing at this point i'll be spinning my wheels until I'm able to model other areas.  Which brings me to how to bridge the stern post, station 20 up through the wing transom.
 
I created construction planes using the sheer plan for the bottom of the wing transom, transom #1 - #4, and one in between the keel and the bottom of #4.
 

I then created sketches on these planes.  This adds some complexity as projections will be skewed when looking down towards the top of the keel.  I added the various reference points and intersected the stern post at each sketch.  However, a rough sketch of the filling transoms (?) profiles appear way off from the TFFM half breadth plans.
 
I've struggled making the 15" square at head of the stern post fit the rest of the plans.   TFFM states 1' 3" on pg. 41, pg. 64.    However, the plans seem to agree with about 12".   Additionally, the contract I have for the Hornet states:
 
"The stern post to be of good wound? oak tim of the best kind free from defects. sq. at head 12 1/2 (which is t run up to bolt in the Lua? deck beam)"
 
Which leads credence to the ~12" dimension. 
 
Does anyone have thoughts on regarding this?
 
This screen shot is taken top down which means the profile lines for the filling transoms are project per the angle of they're drawn on.  
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

Thanks, Druxey. Being so busy I can only do it when it's a weekend of decent weather.
 
Martin

Hope the "issues" aren't too serious. Loving following along on this.

Amalio, Michael, thank you very much.

Hi some photos of the base of the model under construction.

I pray that you do not have any rambunctious cats or little ones under foot.
David B 

The railing and strap look terrific. I'm quite sure your symmetry on both sides is spot on....I've not seen anything amiss yet!

Looking great Ben. I remember how tedious the framing was on my KF and I allowed myself the occasional break to make a sub assembly of some kind for use further down the road. Hang in there you are nearly there.
 
Remco

Oh, good! They looked horizontal in your photo. Must be the angle it was taken at.

Amazing Toni!
 
A truly inspiring work with the mortises and an excelllent tutorial for that tricki knee... Did you use some kind of jig to cut the mortises on the "pump box"? I mean the pillars with that 11 blade. What stuff do you use to simulate the black bolting on the knees?
 
Beautiful.
 
 
Daniel.