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Sources and Helpful Links

 

Natoma Skiff Materials Notes

 

Planking – Occume plywood 5mm thick, request uncut metric size from Harbor Sales

 

Stems – 2x6 hemlock fir from Home Depot

 

Keel – 2x4 Hemlock fir from Home Depot

 

Gunwales – Clear Douglas fir

 

Breasthooks – Spanish cedar from South Jersey Lumbermans, Inc.

 

Seats – 1" Red cedar deck planking from Home Depot

 

Seatblocks – scrap 2x4 material

 

Knees – white oak from scrap hardwood flooring

 

Footstop assembly – 1968 Mahogany recycled from Boston Whaler interior

 

Rowing outriggers – Bendable 3mm, 5 ply Finnish birch plywood sheet 25" x 25" from Lee Valley Tools

 

Epoxy and Fillers – 1 gallon MAS FLAG (filleting, laminating and glueing) resin and medium hardener from MAS Epoxies, colloidal silica filler for thickening, colloidal silica and microballoons for fairing and filleting

 

Epoxy for coating – .5 gallon MAS Epoxy Low viscosity resin with slow hardener

 

Clear Finish – Minwax Helmsman Spar urethane semi-gloss

 

Paint – Behr Premium exterior latex enamel white and gray from Home Depot

 

Stainless hardware – BoatUS local store

 

Stainless oarlock sockets – 1" stainless from Joseph Fazzio, Inc. Metals and machined by Roger Crabtree (home machinist) to size

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