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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (103206)	5/4/2005 8:53:22 PM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 108807

The grade of cedar I've seen at Home Depot has too many knots. I think you have to look for specialty wood shops to get clear boards, which you then rip on a table saw to get the strips. Cedar is ideal because it is strong and light. Spruce might be good too. When I worked in the Adirondacks, I saw Adirondack Guide Boats that were made with ribs cut from spruce stumps to get the natural curvature of the root flair. I think the hulls were made of cedar. Cedar strip canoes do not have any ribs, because the fiberglass gives enough strength. In Juneau, I saw a fairly large sailboat made with the cedar strip method. The name of the boat: "Matchstick." It was a beautiful thing indeed. Must have taken forever to build.