Mission accomplished. Stopped at the Hydroplane and Raceboat Museum on my way to work and measured the angles and lengths I mentioned in my last post. What I found is that the plans and I were both wrong:
I was thinking the nontrip lower panel was at 45 degrees NOPE!!!! That angle is correct for the Pak and several similar Ron Jones hulls, but not this one
The plans showed the angle to be 38 degrees NOPE!!!! Not sure where that came from unless it was from the T-2 or T-3 Budweiser or one of Fred Leland's turbines as they were all very simular to the Elam
The actual angle is a much lower 30 degrees YIKES!!!!
So, now the question is do I rework the glue blocks to the correct 30 degrees or the incorrect 38 degrees? I know leaving them at the present 45 degrees won't work at all