: Sorry Tom, I missed your original reference to strip planking.

: Have you checked out the Cosine Wherry, which is a wherry in name only, but
: is a rowing boat of about the same size which is strip built without
: permanent frames?

Yes, I've looked at the site on the Internet. Dismissed it for some unremembered reason--perhaps it doesn't have the flat bottom of the true wherry? I'll have to visit the site again. The beachability of the true wherry is one of the things that appeals to me. Tom