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# Checking the Stringer Flow Before Fitting
- URL: https://seanation.org/checking-the-stringer-flow-before-fitting/
- Published: 2024-07-19T11:06:29.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-06T14:25:28.000Z
- Description: I’m taking the slow, careful route with the stringers, using partitions and mast knees to control their flow and avoid surprises later. Trusting and checking beats trusting alone.
- Author: Monika Matis
- Tags: Ikaroa, Tech, #story-ikaroa, #facebook-import

Well, these bits which normally would be done by two-three people are taking a lot of time. Especially that it is not just about putting the stringer in the notches and calling it a day.  
No, there is a lot more to this. Yes, sure, you can do it in such a way but over these years I have found that I am not trusting myself enough to risk that! (Not that I trusted anyone including myself before, but mentality of “trusting AND checking” went up quite a few notches up these days 😜).  
And that’s why you’re starting to see the bits I have been working on lately showing up in the hulls. Partitions, mast knees and similar things. Not that I’m fitting them now - but they serve as a good way of controlling the flow of the stringer - and allow me to avoid surprises later on, when I will be fitting them and stringers will be already fitted! (Yes, I never liked surprises… nothing changed here, I still don’t like them!)  
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