Starting work on a couple new boats this week and using up shop scraps and some salvaged wood in the process. After rehabbing the cracked reject gunnels yesterday, today I plugged the deck beam mortises originally intended for a flat deck F1 to be re-purposed for a normal F1. I normally advise against this because even though the space is filled it interrupts the longitudinal fibers and compromises the strength of gunnels, but because it’s my own boat I feel fine with the risk.
Glued up some curved deck beams. The laminations are alternating layers of western red cedar from a chunk of 4 x 4 that I literally found on the side of the road yesterday, and some yellow cedar that I found at a salvage yard about four years ago.
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