Bottom, strake and garboard.

We fit and cut the bottom over the top of the frames and using the stem to hold the bottom in place.  When the bottom is attached then it would get beveled so that when the strake comes to getting put down it layes right over the bottom nicely.  We got the bevel marks by using a tenon saw, we would go to the stations and cut the slot into the bottom but when cutting you would follow the the strake line so that makes a nice fit. The strake is one of the board thats on the side of the boat and it is the board closest to the bottom of the dory.  We measured the strake by sticking a spilling plant on.  We made a measurement down from the top of the spilling plant and created a made up measurement, we will say 100mm, so we went down 100mm from the edge of the plank and ,easured to where the strake needed to go to, then we would write on the plank the measurement and do that for every station.  Once finished we would take the spilling plank to our sheet of ply wood the measure from that 100mm mark up what the measurement we took down was.  When the strake is down we would bevel that also and apply the same technique as the strake.