Your wood of choice..

[JLIMA]

My personal preference is usually toward southern yellow pine for most purposes in the few boats I've built (in fact my last boat was built exclusively with the stuff keel frames skin everything). In defense of my insanity, it's readily available and the price is right. So I was wondering what your tasted in tale.

[Submarine Tom]

Yellow cedar.

-Tom

"tasted in tale?" - That's a wee personal, no?

[Boston]

never met a soft wood I didn't grow to hate eventually
I'll take the hardwoods any day

cherry
black walnut
white oak

are far more my speed

the ceders I must say I've had some great experiences with but they make me sneeze like a mad man after a while
so I guess its not all the softwoods
cheers
B

[peter radclyffe]

oak, iroko, opepe, teak, larch, pitch pine, greenheart, mahogany

[peter radclyffe]

acacia

[JLIMA]

I do love the look of teak and mahogany but my wallet cries at the though of using them for much more than small amounts of trim.....although I've never used a few of those, opepe acacia, or iroko so I can't really say anything about them.

[darr]

We are using Sapele in several applications on our boats. Although not below the waterline.

[SamSam]

Plywood.

[Submarine Tom]

I didn't have the guts to say plywood but I was thinking it!

-Tom

[SamSam]

Douglas fir is all right, too. Sort of brittle but light, strong and stable.

[Boston]

not trying to get after you Sam but

definitely brittle
not light at 35lbs/ft and even that 35 number is generous given that this woods strength is so heavily dependent on where in the tree its taken from IE its inconsistent in strength and weight
stable is debatable
strong is debatable

Dougy would be my least favorite wood

to each his own I suppose

cheers
B

[SamSam]

I guess it is a medium weight wood, but it has a high strength to weight ratio. It also has high stability and is used in doors, windows, trim, flooring, boats etc.
http://www2.wwpa.org/SPECIESPRODUCTS...5/Default.aspx

Cherry, walnut and oak are fine woods but cost plenty and you certainly aren't going to plank a boat with any of them. You might frame it with oak, but not walnut or cherry.

I think after plywood and doug fir, my next wood of choice would be from the polyester or epoxy tree. Possibly eco-friendly plantation grown aluminum.

[dskira]

The cheapest (chipari dolares)

Daniel

[Franklins]

I have built three with white ash frams and marine plywood. I find the boats to be vary strong and take the ruff water great. I have powered my last hull with a 250 vmax Yamaha and it eats 4 foot waves at 63 MPH.