That's great Chuck, thank you very much!! I need to go experiment with my new Chuck planking station ( I need smaller clamps, I have really big and really small:-). I have plenty of walnut strips to sacrifice.  I just ordered artist tape from Amazon, that makes so much more sense than trying to draw lines or placing "battons."    Next up, marking the ship just a piece of scrap wood, I may need to remake the curve piece. I did this on the fly just to see how it works.