Your stripping job is beautiful too!

Did you widen the entire boat 2" or just one area?

Is that rectangle on the port side of the cockpit a rearview mirror?

shawn

> In keeping with the wood theme I made some mods to Nick's footbrace for
> the fact that I widened the boat 2 inches and added a footrest at the
> bottom so i am not putting alot of tension on the steering lines. I guess
> I'm one of those people that can't leave anything alone wihout changing
> it, even the boat is 95% 1/8" black ash with the remainder being
> mahogany ,birch and even some 1/8" cedar encapsulated in 4 oz glass
> for the bulkheads with a strip of 1/2" foam under the bottom edge
> sealed with polyurethane caulk the boat is 19 ft long and weighs 55 lbs, A
> bit heavy but I like it. I will probably build a Night Heron (without mods
> Nick) when I get some more paddling experience under my belt and some more
> lard from under it, Nick sure does design and build some beautiful and
> spirited boats.

> later Bill