Boomkin Joe
07-29-2004, 02:21 PM
Builders,
I have a sizeable stack of softwood strakes that I guess is Northern pine or fir. Not the basic pine anyway.
About 7'x 3/8" x 3.5"
It's bead-and-cove decorative stock for interior planking, and you wouldn't cross the ocean on that stuff, but I'm in one of those lapstrake moods (there seems to be an epidemic kicking around) so, as a lot of scrap is to be expected due to my total lack of experience on that job, you'd think that could be good stuff enough to get a hand at it.
Yet, if the dinghy eventually reaches a stage of completion it would be too bad to burn it just for its weak wood quality.
What makes things worse is, unless you twist my arm hard enough I wouldn't glass it, rather paint or tar it for environmental reasons.
So, can such stock sustain coastal duty?
Thanks.
I have a sizeable stack of softwood strakes that I guess is Northern pine or fir. Not the basic pine anyway.
About 7'x 3/8" x 3.5"
It's bead-and-cove decorative stock for interior planking, and you wouldn't cross the ocean on that stuff, but I'm in one of those lapstrake moods (there seems to be an epidemic kicking around) so, as a lot of scrap is to be expected due to my total lack of experience on that job, you'd think that could be good stuff enough to get a hand at it.
Yet, if the dinghy eventually reaches a stage of completion it would be too bad to burn it just for its weak wood quality.
What makes things worse is, unless you twist my arm hard enough I wouldn't glass it, rather paint or tar it for environmental reasons.
So, can such stock sustain coastal duty?
Thanks.