You can always use what I call "Chesapeake teak," or pressure treated
yellow pine. It won't last like mahogany, but it'll get you sailing.
Broken daggerboards are a useful source of rudder stock, also.
- George
On 5/28/19 12:08 PM, mark.suszko@... [sunfish_sailor] wrote:
That is dandy, if you can *find* an affordable piece of mahogany in the
required size. I spent weeks trolling not only big box stores but
individual lumber suppliers and prices I got quoted sometimes approached
the value of my entire boat, one the shipping was included. ?I was bout
to give up and make one from oak with a ? fiberglass outer sheath, when
I found an affordable, damaged mahogany rudder on eBay and fixed that up
instead.
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I think how evening follows morn; gdinwiddie@...
So many I loved were not yet dead,
So many I love were not yet born. also see:
'The Middle' by Ogden Nash
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