Howie
Wooden Canoe Maniac
Some day soon I hope to canvas & mud Rushton Indian (not an IG 'Girl'). In the mean time I've been preparing the top & outer rails. This canoe is a Grade B, so it has rail caps and a non rabbeted outer rail.
The canoe came to me with several nicely labeled bags of hardware and some short scraps of the top & outer rails. From this I'm surmising that the top caps were secured with small copper nails. And it appears that the outer rails were held with 1-1/4" and (perhaps) 1" #5 or #6 wood screws, and it looks like these screws were used at every rib plus a few extra at the ends of the deck.
Does this jibe with what other folks have seen?
The canoe came to me with several nicely labeled bags of hardware and some short scraps of the top & outer rails. From this I'm surmising that the top caps were secured with small copper nails. And it appears that the outer rails were held with 1-1/4" and (perhaps) 1" #5 or #6 wood screws, and it looks like these screws were used at every rib plus a few extra at the ends of the deck.
Does this jibe with what other folks have seen?
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