solid Iroko cabin trunk

Thanks Fallguy, will do.

The rudder is a single piece of Iroko,as are the trunk sides,coaming,cockpit sides.

 

May I ask whether the rudder is glassed? I am just a little surprised at an Iroko rudder. Don't take me the wrong way. My brother had a wooden rudder on a much smaller boat and it worked for awhile, but eventually had to be sheathed in glass and epoxy. Maybe that part is a no brainer for you or maybe I am grasping at straws for a way to contribute to the lovely vessel you are building is all.

At any rate; the boat really has gorgeous lines and I wish I could see it up close.

My brother's rudder cup warped, by the way..and it broke on the grains..perpendicular to the cupping. Perhaps you are also vertical grained and less likely to encounter same..after his broke; we bonded and glassed it back together and the cup was mosty defeated thus

 

It was a large stable flatsawn plank that had hardly cupped on drying.I decided not to glass as I figured the glass would not stop that piece from swelling and something would give.It has large straps on the pintles which should help keep it from cupping too much,and a small amount of cupping could be dealt with.I know I'm taking a chance and if it fails,then maybe laminate one from vertical grain boards or weld one up.I just love these big timbers and it seems sacrilege to cut them up,and I've done that too many times.

This is a detail of the coaming I quite like-it was a 4" block,cut and stacked on top of each other.The deck is taking a beating,not helped by a family of barn owls living in the fabric "ceiling"(because of the heat in summer) just above the fore deck