From: Todd Schlemmer <toddsch@microsoft.com>
To: "'baidarka@lists.intelenet.net'" <baidarka@lists.intelenet.net>
Subject: RE: cracked
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 13:39:45 -0700
gun'l
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wayne steffens [SMTP:wsteffen@skypoint.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 27, 1997 2:05 PM
> To: baidarka@lists.intelenet.net
> Subject: cracked
>
> Dowelled the stern plate to the gunnls today but havent finished
> "mating"
> the surfaces. There was a small crack from the endmost dowel to the
> end of
> the gunn'l', a distance of maybe an inch. I sort of knew this crack
> was
> there before dowelling and had meant to use the gunwales the other way
> around so that part got cut off at the bow, but (obviously) I didnt do
> that.
>
> I'm not too concerned about it, and plan on drilling a hole near the
> end of
> the stern plate and lashing around the gunnel to hold the cracked end.
> Any
> other ideas short of using glue or epoxy will be entertained, assuming
> of
> course they are entertaining.
>
> With the bow and stern plates in (almost), its starting to resemble a
> kayak
> frame.
>
> Wayne
>
> PS are there any ways to spell gunwale that I forgot?