: Bill,
: Sorry for any confusion, but I was referring to the lip (that the skirt goes
: over) that goes around the vertical riser pieces. My risers came out good
: ... I thought I was actually on a roll! I understand that some people use
: rope saturated with resin for the lip, but that doesn't appeal to me. I
: could make a lip out of plywood (like those on my Chessies and
: Shearwaters) but that would look really ugly on top of my pretty cedar
: riser. Stejdor's blog, the only Petrel build I have found, did a composite
: combing but that's way past my skill level. I'm going to keep trying using
: the method in Nick's first book; the laminating of thin strips. It's just
: that my first attempts have resulted in lots of broken strips. I didn't
: think it would be this hard, but that's been my Petrel story right along.
: Jim

Hi Jim,

Oh ok, if you've got white ash, it bends really easily when cut to thin strips, relatively strong too, specially compared to cedar. And if you have to, you can easily steam ash, cedar doesn't respond as well to that method.

I did mine in carbon fiber, was a challenge for sure, but fun still. It fits inside the wood strip riser, which also was a challenge.

Bill H.