: Hi, have got a lot of good tips from everyone here in building an
: Osprey canoe as SOF and now am planning a Bufflehead sailing
: canoe also Yost style. I overbuilt the canoe as the nice wood
: here is close grained Scots pine, clear but heavy and strong and
: i used 20x20mm stringers, and now will reduce the stringers to
: 15x15mm (0.6") fastened to 12 or 15mm 5 ply frames. There
: are 4 stringers + gunwale + keel. I previously used long decking
: screws to fasten the stringers and would like to use them again
: but am concerned that the drill hole would weaken the smaller
: stringer. However Cape Falcon site describe using ring nails to
: fasten 5/8" stringers to ribs building their Adirondack
: canoe. Should I increase the width of the stringers to 18-20mm
: to compensate for the screw holes or lash the stringers using a
: hole drilled from the top to bottom to take the cord to avoid
: bumps in the cloth. I fear lashings would take a long time (48
: of them if I screw the thicker gunwales and keel) and ruin my
: fingers. I thought to also use flexible construction glue with
: fillets as well. What do people think?
: Peter

I'm a big fan of lashing, but I've only two kayaks under my belt.

I mostly replied so folks can read your post (I couldn't, using Chrome, until I removed the "sbj/skin-on-frame-fastening-stringers-to-frames/" from the link to your post, so it looks like "http://www.kayakforum.com/cgi-bin/Building/index.cgi/page/1/md/read/id/219430/")