I'm using Robert Morris' book to build a West Greenland style. I was looking at one product which looked to have a lot of the properties required but I'm sure it would not be pleasant to work with like wood. I agree that nothing beats wood and I have no intention of using anything else but was just curious if anyone tried this.

: There are a lor of differnt ways to do this . could you be more specific?

: I was thinking of the next

: Most of the man-made deck materials I've seen are composed of very long chain
: molecules (that is good ol' plastic) and is thus very dense, hard to cut,
: hard to drill,rather heavy, not about to be bouyant. If you have found
: something different you'll have to tell us, ecactly, what is called.
: When it comes to withstanding flexing (which is part and parcel of SOF
: design)nothing beats good old wood.
: If Inuits that lived on rock strewn shores could get enough wood for a kayak
: you can too.