Flying Cloud - Bending wood

Flying Cloud has a nice rounded stern which required some wood bending.

Wood bends easier when it's wet, so I built this "soaking tank" for long strips of wood.  It's filled with water.

Hook the wood strip with a handy clothes pin and drop it into the tank for a couple of hours - overnight is better for harder wood with tighter bends.

I cut a form in the shape of the stern and wrapped the soft wet wood around it and left to dry.

Now it can be glued in place.