We made much faster progress by using a small template piece, pictured below. This allowed us to not worry about the lateral alignment and simply make sure it lined up along the length of the strip. All the matching strips are paired to match a particular strip on the hovercraft to match their specific idosyncracities. (aks hand drilling inaccuracies.)
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An example of the template for marking the mating strips. |
You'll see at the end we also started cutting the stock for the superstructure.