Steaming new timbers is always a little bit of magic, and a wonderful team effort. On the Liddesdale canoe the originals made from rock elm had rotted, snapped and been subject to many partial repairs over the years. We replaced all 47 in a day and a half. The new timbers were made from green European oak, with a heavy thumbnail profile cut by hand.
Fastening them all up took a fair while longer, particularly in the stems where access was troublesome.
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