I've been thinking about how to strip the deck, and how I want the finished product to look. I've made some decisions. Here is a photo of the tip of the stern. You can see a dark centerline piece meeting with a dark edge piece. I have some more "chocolate" colored red cedar that I'll use on the stern like this.

The bow is a similar style — centerline pieces meeting the edge/corner pieces. Believe it or not, these pieces (which are darker than the whole hull) are from the same exact chocolate-colored strips on the stern. Again, the holes here will be filled in from the bottom, meeting at the straight stern pieces.

Here's a side view of the bow. You can see that I didn't run the centerline pieces all the way across the boat. Here I'm toying with what the boat will actually look like. The piece on the right of the picture will swoop down from the centerline, to the sheerline and around the cockpit, and come back to meet the centerline on the back side of the boat. "Inside" of that oblong shape I'll use the Alaskan yellow cedar, and I'm planning on stripping it straight — that is, parallel with the floor, not curved. The bow and stern sections will be stripped with more western red cedar.

Another shot of the bow from the same side.