: Howdy;
: I have started building a greenland style SOF kayak and am getting
: some static about useing poplar for the gunnals. Is there any
: good reason to not use it?

: Thanks
: Danny

If this is a traditional Greenland SOF, with bent frames, the mortices will be much more work to cut in a hardwood like poplar. It's also fairly heavy compared to the more traditional pine along with it being rot prone like Charlie mentioned.

Bill H.