Howard,
That is exactly my thoughts. The lumber you can buy at a store is pretty sad these days. I get spoiled having my own lumber yard. I might add that I can mill up to 30' long so it would likely eliminate some scarfing for me. I won't be starting this boat build until at least next fall so if I get the wood sawn this summer, itwould have a full year of air drying and it shoudl be pretty close to proper MC and very stable. Pine air dry's quite quickly if kept under tin. I hate going to a lumber yard, picking out lumber from the stack, bringing it home and three days later being out of the stack it looks like an airplane propeller or a snake. They mill that stuff with a lot of stress in it. I can take the time to read a log and mill it without stress and to pick and choose my boards as they come off the log. I can also cut the stuff almost to veneer thickness which is nice for bending and doing laminations. I don't have to try to reduce standard dimensional lumber into thin strips.
