More ribs and inwale

Finished three more rib tips and epoxied them on I also steam bent the right side rear inwale tip.

New planking

My first piece of new planking. I spend half an hour running the thickness planer to get a nice stack of planking down to the right thickness. Need to do some bleaching to match the colors.

Left stern ribs and inwale

Some warm weather allowed me to strip the last of the finish in the stern. I'm getting ready to bond a few pieces in place.

I also drilled out the seat hanger holes to clean them up so I can bond in plugs and re-drill to fit the new 3/16 hanger bolts.

New parts

We had an unusually warm day today, so I took the afternoon off and worked on the canoe.  I made two new rib tips, trimmed the new left inwale tip to fit the scarf joint cut, and beveled the new stem on the bandsaw and planed one side.

Two new rib tips

New left inwale tip

New aft stem beveled on the bandsaw and getting smoothed up

Deck, rib, and inwale

Lots of little bits getting fixed today. I spliced a new tip on the stern deck. A small amount of this will show after the cap pieces are on, so matching the color of the wood will need be done.

The stern deck with a new tip bonded on

I've sliced off one rib tip and the end of the left inwale. The inwale is curved, so I'm steaming it to bend it. Since it's small, I'm steaming it in the oven.

The inwale cut off with a scarf joint at one of the deck screw locations

Rib tip with the scarf joint cut

Steaming the inwale blank in the oven

The new inwale bent and clamped to the form cut to the contour of the deck

Stern deconstruction

I'm tearing down the stern end to fix the inner gunwales, rib tips, stem, and deck. This time I took the deck all the way out. There is more planking on this end, but everything else is a bit worse off. It needs six rib tips and bigger patches to the gunwales and deck.

Switched ends

Not making much progress in the cold. I turned the canoe around to work on the stern stem and deck. This end actually has a few intact planks. The deck needs a bigger patch though.

Two More Ribs Repaired

These ribs are the last ones to repair on the bow end.  The other ones that were less than perfect were salvaged by filling the defects with epoxy.  These rib tips will be covered by a cap strip, so they don't have to look good, they just need to be a good structural joint.  I tried to strip the last remaining finish in this area, but it still needs one more go with stripper.

I have been cutting back the broken planks so the new pieces end on a rib.  On these two, I kept two of the original fasteners.   The joints in the planking need to be staggered so two adjacent planks don't end on the same rib.

Here's a look at the skeleton from the inside of the bow. There are still several planks that need to be cut back, but those will wait until I have put some new planks on so I can keep the shape of the hull.

New Rib Top

Before:

After:

I cut a scarf joint and made a replacement rib top for the first of about 6 ribs (two at the bow and 4-5 at the stern end).  The tenon jig on the tablesaw works great for cutting the taper for the glue joint.

New stem installed

I beveled the stem blank on the band saw and did some hand planing to adjust the angle.  The angle varies from tip to keel, so it needs to be adjusted so the planks will lie flat.

The connection at the top has a #6 brass screw up into the deck.  The bottom joint is a scarf joint.  Both ends are glued in place with epoxy.  I took of a few more planking pieces, but I need to add new planks before I take anymore off. The first ribs aren't nailed to the stem, so the planks are holding them in position.  I don't know if there were nails originally, of if the rib ends were just nested up against each other.