Website about wood

[rbcaru]

Can anyone suggest a website containing succinct descriptions of woods used in maritime applications? I am particularly interested in woods used in building large 19th-century square-riggers, and I would like details: country of origin, history of use, specific density, rot resistance, specification application and why (tamarack for knees), etc.
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Bruce

[outofthenorm]

Here's a great place to start. Specs on many species, foreign and domestic.

http://www2.fpl.fs.fed.us/TechSheets/techmenu.html

[neilm]

Here's another.
http://www.woodbin.com/ref/wood/index_ref_wood.htm

This might be the same info, different format:
http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/fplgtr/fplgtr113/fplgtr113.htm

Most boat building books have a chapter dedicated to wood for boats. Keep in mind times have changed and finding quality old growth wood is much harder.

Neil