Hobie,

Hopefully this picture will help:



As you can see I cut a square hole that spans to the middle of the next former like the sheeting repair article suggests, which puts the broken former in the middle. I then cut out the leading edge balsa shown, and glued in a new piece I bought at the hobby shop. After that I made a new former by tracing the end then I glued it to the side of the the broken former. Now that I have a new former and new leading edge balsa, all that was left was to sheet it as described in the repair article then sand to shape.

Hopefully that helps. If it doesn't let me know and I'll walk you though it on the phone.

schu