: It works like this, Bill. The canoes were built with strips. Full
: length strips. Unfortunately 80 years ago no epoxy and no glass.
: What to do,what to do? I've got it we'll clinch nail the boat
: together. All the big stripper boats, of which there were
: hundreds of examples, are clinch nailed. Why not our boat? But
: what will we nail the strips to? Well all the big stripper boats
: nail their strips to steamed ribs. Why can't we do that too?
: You get the picture, Bill? There were stripper skiffs before there
: were stripper canoes. These stripper skiffs were made from large
: thick strips that were edge-nailed together. When the strips
: were all assembled steamed ribs were inserted and clinch-nailed.
: Without a lot of steamed ribs to hold the strips into place you
: had a limber pile of sticks. No steamed ribs, no clinch nails no
: boat.
: The problem with stripper canoes was the strips were too small for
: edge nailing so the ribs were clamped onto a mold and the strips
: were nailed to the ribs. The lack if edge nails necessitated
: something to keep all the strips in line so the strips were
: ship-lapped.
: That's the story, Bill, whether you believe it or not. I think I
: got all this information from the Wooden Canoe Heritage
: Association. If you want to do battle with them be my guest.

Geez, no reason to get hostile. I know the contruction method you describe, just generally in boat building each method has a different name. I may well be wrong, have been before and will again, but it's odd that two very different building methods have the same name.

Bill H.