I had been thinking that the ballistic nylon skin would be adhered to the plywood bottom/floor, possibly with a bead of caulk around the perimeter to keep the gunkies at bay. Would the ZAR poly coating seep through enough to do that, or should I consider an adhesive of some sort? Or am I just asking for troubles by not letting the skin float? I plan to steam bend the frames of 3/8 white oak and like the thought of the same bend radius for all as they could be produced in quantity on the same jig.

Love the name BTW.

: Using a ply bottom and sheerstrake was an attempt to reduce the
: amount of work for a stripper. It didn't save much time as I
: spent a lot of time laminating the ribs. The ply sheer was much
: easier than fitting cheater strips, although fitting it to the

: top strip was a bit fiddley; it wouldn't be needed for a SOF I
: think. It has a nice olde time look. I am naming her Rose Lee
: after another stripper who also never stripped all the way :-)

: If I rebuilt her as a SOF I think I would put the ribs on the
: underside of the ply bottom with a keel and wrap the fabric over
: that rather than having the fabric in contact with the ply, so
: the space between them could then be hosed clean occasionally. I
: am tempted to put a SOF together as I have an entire set of
: practice ribs I made up.

: Interesting detail; the design follows a radius bilge shape: the
: curve of the bilge is a circular arc, the stem profile is simply
: the same shape stretched about x3.5 or so. I don't really know
: why I did that - it seemed a good idea at the time . . .