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Skin-on-Frame: Longitudinal lashing or individual lashing?
By:John Raley
Date: 1/27/2015, 11:23 am

Hi everyone. I've built a bunch of fuselage kayaks, but I'm doing my first canoe as an SOF bent rib. I'm bending ribs now (which I am finding steam bending is my new favorite things), and I'm starting to think about lashing. With 18 ribs, 8 stringers and the keel that equals 162 individual lashings, which is a little daunting. Not impossible though.

Morris recommends longitudinal lashing, which seems far less time consuming. He says that it is very durable, but I'm a little skeptical. Which do you recommend. If you do longitudinal do you wrap once or twice at each junction?

Thanks! pics are below of the build.

first seven ribs

attaching stringers

laminated stems in walnut

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Skin-on-Frame: Longitudinal lashing or individual lashing?
John Raley -- 1/27/2015, 11:23 am
Re: Skin-on-Frame: Longitudinal lashing or individ
Mike Bielski -- 1/27/2015, 12:09 pm
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John Raley -- 1/27/2015, 12:22 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 1/27/2015, 1:10 pm
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Jeff Horton -- 1/27/2015, 4:55 pm
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John -- 1/28/2015, 11:54 am
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Jeff Horton -- 1/28/2015, 1:47 pm
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John -- 1/28/2015, 9:36 pm
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Thomas Duncan -- 1/28/2015, 8:56 am
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Brian Nystrom -- 1/31/2015, 10:30 am