Rather than disassembling the HS I decided to leave it clecoed in order to save some space. Instead I started with the rudder stiffeners. Van's provides you with some long angles that need to be cut into shape:
The first step is to cut them to length, then mark the taper and cut them with snips:
I cut slightly outside the marked line and did the final trimming on the band/disc sander:
The final step was a short (*cough*, *cough*) run on the Scotchbrite wheel to smoothen and deburr all edges and corners. That bench grinder does get hot after a while ...
Here is the result:
