: I was

: What are your screws made of? If they could rust, then replace
: them. Tradition is heavy with boat building. Screws are not
: considered traditional. Other than that, if you followed Toms
: guidelines and epoxied it as well, then the screws should/could
: be fine. People use less and do just fine. I have a boat that
: uses lashing and no pegs for many joints.
: Scott

There's traditional, and there's pragmatic. Fuselage construction isn't very traditional, either. Inuit builders were pragmatic- as soon as nails were available, they replaced lashings on the stringers, as soon as mast hoops were available they pretty much stopped building coaming rings in favor of mast rings, and H. C. Petersen says to use barrel strakes for ribs. Bronze and monel screws are pretty standard in wooden boat construction nowadays, so maybe it's simply a pragmatic choice.

BUT- unrealtrip- I hope those are bronze or monel screws and not yellow wood screws... Also- screws don't hold well screwed into the edge of plywood. If it were me I'd lash it too, and wouldn't depend solely on screws driven into the edge of a piece of plywood.

Just being pragmatic-

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