It's been a while since I made any progress on the canoe.  It's been over 100 almost every day for weeks and there is only a few hours in the morning that it is tolerable to work out in the garage.

I was trying to strip the little space between the inner and outer gunwales and realized the outer gunwales have to come off when the new canvas is put on, so I should pull them off now.

I also removed the first piece of planking that will need to be replaced.  This gives me lots of room to work on the tips of the ribs.

Here are some of the planking nails I pulled out. You can see how they are bent from being hammered into the clinching iron.