: Its looking great John.
: Yeah "toothpicks" probobly shouldn't be it.
: So how about Hoosier's Long Haul I'm just teasing. I keep threatening to
: call my present boat the sled. I started testing Nick's designs out in the
: snow out behind his barn and mines likely to get luanched on the sledding
: hill.

: Its a classic already!: I was in a book store that is closing out (Big chain
: store opened a cross the street) was perusing a wooden boat book
: yesterday. And found a picture of a decked canoe. with similar dimensions
: to yours. The writer considered by the writer to be a classic. Decked
: canoe called a fiddlehead. It had a similar usage intent, and dimensions.
: It was a lapestrake though.
: I'll post a picture later today.

: See your already building a classic! You know what they say about great
: minds.

: Thoughts On your plan to mate your seams: That's a lot of what I did. I used
: slots too but I ddin't glue the seams together. . I think you have an open
: cocpit so you'll be able to get at things easier. The big thing is to get
: all the glue out after you knock the slots out. I found a wooden mallet
: helpful to tap things into line. I also used rounded pieces of red oak to
: hold the parts out that needed it. I didn't find much need to glue the
: seams as the epoxy will fill the seam and glue it in any ways. And the
: biase backs up that. The biggest difference was a trade off. On other
: boats we have done we could do one seam stem to stern in one fell swoop.
: IT went quick, but the long rolled up piece of bias can be hard to handle.
: The slots make it a thing you have to do in 2 foot bits and then go back
: over the slotted area. Loading straps wwere very helpfull outside addition
: to the inside slots. All grist for your mill.
: The good in htat is you can work each area for fit as you do it, and is hard
: er to work near the ends from a distance. It sound though if you can get
: into the stem and sterm it wil lbe easier.
: !RUSS

Thanks for you thoughts Russ. I print out so much or yours, and others, that I have a folder that is bulging. I need to index it now.

John