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This boat was a wide canoe that could be paddled, rowed, sailed or put a motor on the back. I had to build contour of the boat bottom templates of plywood, which were held in place spaced by two by fours. Wood boats often had ribs to which the wood shell is affixed. For each rib, a piece of half inch plywood had to be cut in the shape the rib would take of that part of the bottom of the boat.
This a sixteen footer and probably may have had eight ribs, twenty-four inches apart. I had to cut eight pieces of plywood, on
one-end the shape of the boat and on the other just stand-up square. These would be nailed to two by fours, one every twenty-four inches so that they stood erect such that the bottom was up and the boat upside down.
The ribs were made of teak wood and the hull of redwood. The rails and the keel were made of oak. All this wood I had to have machine milled in co-incidentally Mill Valley
just over the Golden Gate Bridge. The teak was one inch wide and an eighth inch thick of six foot lengths. The thinness was bend-ability. The teak ribs were nailed in layers, the first with brass tacks only, to the plywood forms and glued and nailed thereafter with Weldwood waterproof wood glue. I layered one on of the other until a thickness of say an inch.
After all the redwood strips were tacked and glued the boat was peaked in front, wide in the middle and got very narrow toward the back. I imagine then the boat was sawed in half and removed from the plywood templates. The boat was two boats that bolted together for eight foot storage or stand-up in a garage.
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