Charlie said:
: Now, if I wanted to do an SOF I found I can scrounge up enough fairly knot
: free 8 ft. WRC planks from Home Despost that could be ripped and scarfed
: into enough long pieces to do a boat a bit over 15 feet.

And Bill said:

: Air dried is the ideal
: boat building wood, but for a greenland boat's gunwales and stringers that
: doesn't really matter, kiln dried works fine.

That's very interesting. My knowledge of SOF kayak building comes from two books (Cunningham's "Building the Greenland Kayak" and Morris's "
Building Skin-on-Frame Boats") and no practical knowledge whatsoever. As I recall, both said that kiln dried was bad - even for the long members (due to damaged cells walls due to overheating I think), and at least one said that western red cedar was bad (due to brittleness, I think).

This is baloney? How "knot free" is reasonably knot free?