toe rails and rub rails

[alan white]

Thanks, Rusty. I am going to be reframing a foredeck soon and I'm looking for exactly such a lumber. As we both know, practicality has been just about made obsolete due to end-all be-all materials. I have also seen some tight-grained PT planks at the lumber store, sometimes vertical grain too, usually very wet, but I might just put up some in the drying shed for next season.
I've also found eastern white spruce to be an excellent boat wood. The right selection can be strong and light and cheap too.
I don't prefer kiln-drying, of course. I'm up in the Maine woods luckily, and any local mill will sell me green stock. We all ought to get more practical in regard to marine materials. Especially in our own personal boats.

A.

[Rusty Bucket]

Hi Alan, I see you live in Maine, my two favorite boats in the world are a down east lobster boat and shrimp boat. I used to be a shipfitter up to about a decade ago and now I'm a building contractor that specialises in wood horse barns but I still build boats as a hobby. I'm building a 25' aluminum workboat now and I use PT for things like decks,gunnels,transom build-outs ect. and it's working for me so far. Isn't the Maine Lobster boat show now?