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This will probably feel like a primary school question to most of you, and I suspect you'll laugh at me, but I have never owned a canoe with wood gunnels before. I've had only vinyl. I've replaced some gunnels, but I replaced them with the vinyl strips. And then, upon returning home yesterday from a pleasant paddling excursion in the great eastern American state of Pennsylvania, I noticed a strange looking canoe had jumped onto my truck and ridden the roof home. I've decided to keep it. Give it a proper home, so to speak. It's probably not the boat most people would turn to when they think of "canoe camping," or hashtag opencanoeingfordays, but we're here to break stereotypes and bend the mold. It's only 10.5 feet long, so packing for weeks will involve going backpack light, which can be very enjoyable, especially in this twenty-first century hashtag super-air-light-high-tech-age.
So but yeah. The boat has inner and outer Ash gunnels, and I'm staring at the boat going: am I supposed to put something on that wood? Maintain it somehow? Or just replace it every now and again? (Which might turn into an issue with Ash....) I'm preparing to take it all apart to build my seat and I figured I might as well do what I'm going to do with the pieces separated. I hear people talk about oiling wood and I always tried to keep my wood thwarts poly-ed up, so to speak. It certainly gives them more life. But now I've sort of become officially curious: how do you folks in the know maintain watery wood?
Thanks in advance...
So but yeah. The boat has inner and outer Ash gunnels, and I'm staring at the boat going: am I supposed to put something on that wood? Maintain it somehow? Or just replace it every now and again? (Which might turn into an issue with Ash....) I'm preparing to take it all apart to build my seat and I figured I might as well do what I'm going to do with the pieces separated. I hear people talk about oiling wood and I always tried to keep my wood thwarts poly-ed up, so to speak. It certainly gives them more life. But now I've sort of become officially curious: how do you folks in the know maintain watery wood?
Thanks in advance...