I epoxied on a bow piece. When dry, I shaped it to the curve of the planks. The trick here, though, is to keep your eye on the L.O.A. The Marblehead rules say that the boat must be 50" plus or minus 1/4". I think I'm right at the upper limit, but when I do the final shaping, and the rounding of the bow, I should easily be under 50.25". Most of the designs from that era that I have seen, have rounded bows instead of pointy bows. The lines from the original Sun Daze shows a rounded bow too. Given that if I simply ran the planks all the way out to meet each other, that they would run well over the 50.25" limit, I will by necessity have to have a rounded bow. There are many options when it comes to the bow piece. I simply used a block of cedar and epoxied it on vertically. It might look odd to some, but I think that it will make a nice bow. You could also get a block of wood where the grain runs horizontally with the planks. It might sound like it would look bet...