OK, I admit that I did not take enough photographs or notes when I was disassembling
this longitudinal strip built canoe, (16', maybe a Peterborough) and now I do not know how the brass tabs that hold in the floorboards were positioned. My notes do tell me that only 5 tabs remained in this boat, and which ribs they were attached to. There should be 10 tabs. Do all the tabs get mounted toward the top side of the floorboards, so that the floorboards get pinched up against the keelson? Do I assume correctly that there should be a minimum gap between the edge of the floorboard and the keelson?
Thanks for the help. Tom McCloud
this longitudinal strip built canoe, (16', maybe a Peterborough) and now I do not know how the brass tabs that hold in the floorboards were positioned. My notes do tell me that only 5 tabs remained in this boat, and which ribs they were attached to. There should be 10 tabs. Do all the tabs get mounted toward the top side of the floorboards, so that the floorboards get pinched up against the keelson? Do I assume correctly that there should be a minimum gap between the edge of the floorboard and the keelson?
Thanks for the help. Tom McCloud