screw-up

[CK 17]

I screwed up and used vertical grain douglas fir instead of mohogany for my C/B trunk bedlogs. I checked the appendix in the back of the Gougeon Bros. manual and the properies of the two seem fairly close. It's too late to re do them as their bonded to the trunk. Is my boat going directly to the bottom?

Joe Schena

[paladin]

only if the water is shallow.....

[Thad]

Good answer

[CK 17]

Thanks guys, I hate it when I do that!!!

[paladin]

if the fir was properly protected...perhaps goop...then i see no problems. Though not as rot resistant as true mahogany.....it will still work..
My old 38 footer was built entirely of fir and chem Tech T-88 epoxy in 1971 and it's still sailing just fine....

[Jamaica Mike]

Nice, pitchy, quarter sawn old growth Douglas fir is a good boat building material. A lot of trollers on the West Coast were built of it, and many are still afloat 50 years later...

JM

[Bob Cleek]

Actually, I'd just as soon have vertical grain doug fir for that purpose as mahogany. Not a lot of good mahogany around these days and a lot of what is sold as mahogany really isn't. No problem. Still and all, I gotta ask, how, exactly, does one confuse vertical grain doug fir for mahogany? Inquiring minds want to know! LOL

[Bob Smalser]

These 7/8" bedlogs are CVG DF....as is the rest of the 5/8" stepped case.

http://pic3.picturetrail.com/VOL12/1104763/6583947/85463554.jpg

http://pic3.picturetrail.com/VOL12/1104763/6583947/85464400.jpg

I'll paint the fir as it's gonna take a beating down there, and save the mahog for the brightwork cap for the case.

Half of those bedlogs are gonna be covered by the floorboards anyhoo.

[ 02-14-2005, 10:34 PM: Message edited by: Bob Smalser ]

[CK 17]

Originally posted by Bob Cleek:
Still and all, I gotta ask, how, exactly, does one confuse vertical grain doug fir for mahogany? Inquiring minds want to know! LOLI didn't read the plans enough times I guess. I had in my head that the plans allowed doug fir. i was rereading before starting the bulkheads when I discovered the error.

Joe Schena

[Bayboat]

There are several more possible answers to Mr. Cleek's question (they are not necessarily applicable to Joe Schena--his explanation is as good as any).

It was late on a Friday afternoon.
It was early on a Monday morning.
Almost any wood is called mahogany nowadays; why not Doug Fir?
You drank the last beer in the sixpack so as not to have to put it back in the fridge.