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  1. An excellent point. I didn't have sailing forces or multihull boats in mind when I put my two cents in...was thinking about monohull paddle/rowing craft.
  2. I've never used epoxy and I have little experience with boatbuilding but I know a thing or two about tightbond 3. I used to build laminated longbows and used tb3 to glue the laminations. I'm no engineer but my best guess is the compression and tension loads on a bow limb far surpass what a boat framing member would ever see before breaking. I never had a bow fail. I did switch to a 2 part glue but only because it increased the time available before the glue set up. The bows were always dry though. Keeping them damp for a couple hours could change everything.
  3. I know you don't want to build anything but something like this seems pretty simple and it wouldn't take away from the look of the boat. http://www.storerboatplans.com/Canoebits/canoeoutriggers.html
  4. You could build the jig so the stock feeds from front to back instead of from side to side and set the guide for the saw at the appropriate angle.
  5. I used to have a circular saw jig like this http://www.woodworkingtips.com/etips/etip030228ws.html to make cross cuts before I got my chop saw. Was thinking of making one that would cut the appropriate angle for scarfs. Anybody ever done that?
  6. Make a mark in the material with a center punch/hammer where you want the hole to go and the drill bit won't drift.
  7. Was definitely easy to build. Unfortunately I wasn't choosey enough with my lumber and the strongback had a twist in it that I just couldn't live with. Pulled it apart and made a different style...horizontal 2x6 screwed on top of a vertical 2x6. Was able to get most of the twist/bend out of the planks.
  8. Sorry about posting this twice.
  9. I'm getting ready to build a strongback and came across one of these while perusing the interwebs. Can someone tell me the advantages of this style?
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