it was with much anticipation that I finally got to the point of placing the first ribs in my West Greenland SOF. Much trial and error with rib lengths and thicknesses etc. After all of the horror stories, from others, of split ribs etc it was with much anticipation that I placed the first three ribs this evening. Ah it feels so good. They all went in like they were supposed to. The shape looked right. Not one broke. May end up replacing one because it doesn't look as good as it could, we'll see. But the sense of accomplishment and satisfaction feels great none the less.

was fortunate to luck into some green "red Oak", which bent wonderfully. Abit of a challenge ripping the boards into slats on my band saw. Took a while to figure out how to get continually uniform thickness, but it finally worked out after a few false starts.

It is a toss up which is harder to build. S&G is clearly the easiest. With a stripper it is hard to get nice clean tight joints, but with a SOF it is really a challenge getting clean joints on the mortise and tenon joints with those compound angles between deck beams and gunnels. Certainly the SOF has given me the most challenges and the most satisfaction once you over come them.

This is a great hobby.

Feels good, just had to share.
No one else would really understand, except the people on this board...