Plank + 5

Five full strakes of cedar on the boat. Whew! Staring to look like something that might float again. To be honest, I have some worries about the expansion that will occure when the boat gets wet again- the deadwood stack aft has some significant shrinkage going on. All I can really do is try to oil the hell out of it- (actually I'm using a lindseed/k5 mix) and hope there is enough give in the screws and planks. Ah well! Nobody said a 75 year old boat would be easy...

I forgot to take the camera today, I'll get some pix of the snazzy new planks on monday.

It's been getting slowly easier- but then again I'm pretty fussy, so I've been a real fascist about getting the planks tight. Don't tell anyone, but I made at least one horrid butte. I'm tempted to rip it out and do it again. Sigh.