Most of the boats I liked were carvel planked.. What I had in mind was
something like the older pre-fiberglass Lightning or something similar. I
found an older Lightning woodie with a rotten deck and chine log, but the
rest was in pretty good shape other than a couple of cracked planks.
RB



Dave Fleming wrote in message
...
I've been perusing some old boat plans, and have a question regarding
the
sizes of boards. "Back in the day" when some of these plans were
written,
lumber was actually the size it was sold to be. Now, a 1x4 may be as
little
as 3 1/4 in. wide (as measured at local Lowe's home improvement center).
How does one compensate for this when building from old plans?

I was also apalled by the prices for REALLY knotty boards labelled as
"top
choice". By the way, what is "white wood" anway??? Is good lumber
really
that scarce? About 20 years ago I worked in home construction during
the
summers, and even the cheapest boards we used as bracing were longer,
straighter, and a whole lot clearer than the junk I saw at Lowe's.

Russ B

First off, are you going to build in ***traditional carvel planked***
or ***cold moulded***?
Answer that and perhaps some reasonable answers will be posted.
So far all I have seen whilst ***good intentioned ***I am sure,is
just conjecture
Not to sound like a wise arse, yeah it does seem that way, don't it?
:-)
But the more specifics you provide, the better the replies will be to
your particular question.

PAX


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