: Here's an update on my efforts to refurbish and reskin a kayak that my dad
: made around 1959 from plans in Popular Science magazine. I am posting this
: because I think that it is possible that my experience so far may be of
: some use or interest to others, and because I need advice on what to do
: next.

: The frame is made of what Dad called "airplane grade" spruce for
: the stringers, & plywood cutouts to support them, connected with brass
: screws. I don't know what species of spruce, but I assume that
: "airplane grade" meant few to no knots in the wood (I'm thinking
: of Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose"). In any case, I remember him
: sawing each stringer from a spruce board at my grandfather's house up the
: hill from ours in Overland Park, Kansas. I would have been ten years old
: then.

your wood is quarter sawen sitcka spruce. You have a good boat there.

I have a freind with a simular probblem except he has not applyed the first coat of sealent.

Sage