: I have the materials to build a wooden frame Yost Sea Rider and I
: was looking through Tom's site trying
: to determine the length of the gunwales, chines, keel and deck
: stringers. I have these numbers in my notes
: and I'd swear I found them somewhere in one of the manuals at
: yostwerks:

: gunwales 1.5 x .75 inch
: 2 - 20 ft

: keel chine, deck stringers 1 x.75 inch

: 17 ft keel
: 2 - 17 ft chines
: 12 ft deck stringers (2 - 4 ft, 2 - 2 ft. ?)

: I need to scarf the longer pieces up so it would be helpful to be
: more certain of the lengths I will need, but for the
: life of me, I can't find the reference now on yostwerks.com that
: cites 20 ft for gunwales, 17 feet for keel and chines?
: Or did I just make that up?

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: Ogata, eric

I make the chines 3/4" square section, only the keel I make 1" x 3/4". Deck stringers too are 3/4" x3/4". All these boats are pretty skinny, the gunwales end up being very close in length to the overall length of the boat, might want 6" or so extra length when you first frame it.

Bill H.