Strip it any way you'd like--it's your boat!!

It really doesn't matter. Whichever way looks best to you. With glass inside and outside, the strip orientation becomes less of a structural issue and more of an aesthetic issue.

As for station spacing, if your boat doesn't have a lot of strange shape changes (concave-to-convex-to-straight) then 18" form spacing shouldn't hurt anything. Strips with straighter grain will tend to deflect less where they span away from the form, too.

Shawn

: I've been looking into building a cedarstrip pulling boat. My research has
: come up with some different suggestions for stripping order, but I'm not
: sure if it really makes any difference. In "Kayakcraft" and
: Nick's description of stripping the Adirondack Guideboat, stripping begins
: at the gunwale and continues on around to the bottom center or the bottom
: plank. In "Rip, Strip & Row", the stripping begins at the
: gunwale and goes to the water line, then stripping goes from the bottom
: center back to the water line. (In my opinion, this pattern of stripping
: is not nearly as attractive. Also, I'm not sure John Gardner would agree
: that the Cosine Wherry is a wherry, as it lacks the traditional bottom
: plank.) A third description I came upon started the strips at the water
: line and proceeded from there to the gunwale and the bottom center. This
: last plan also used 18" spacing between stations, rather than the
: normal 9" - 12" spacing. I wonder if the 18" spacing is too
: far apart to form the hull shape properly.

: I also ran across a comment in some forum praising the Veritas beading jig.
: Has anyone had any experience in using this jig to cut beads and coves in
: the strips? If it worked, it would be a lot quieter than the buzzing of a
: router.

: Thanks for your help.

: Chris Luneski