: Check out the shipping price for 2 or 3 sheets of plywood and that local
: dealer's price may become a real deal. Iff he has waht you need, or can
: get it.

: A 4x8 sheet of plywood is too big for UPS or FedEx, so it goes by truck. With
: all the middlemen handling it along the way, your shipping costs could be
: more than the price of the wood itself!

: One of the reasons we have to scarf 4x8 sheets into longer panels is because
: no one wants to deal with the problems of shipping 4 x 16 foot sheets of
: plywood. Now if there was a big demand for such sheet sizes-I've seen such
: stuff used for paneling a tall room--then it would be worthwhile to make
: the extra handling effort. Imagine how much time you could save in boat
: building if you could get 2x20 plywood, or 4x20 plywood.

: PGJ

There are a couple yards that actually scarf plywood for you, I know of one guy that has a shop very near one of these yards and bought 4'x50' sheets of ply (for a boat nearly that long). How exactly you pick up a 50 foot long piece of plywood no one ever told me

Bill H.