Daggerboard

[Captain Kidd]

My CIY daggerboard is delaminating. Ugh! I used cheap plywood so I'm not really surprised. I need to make a new one and was thinking of using solid wood. Someone suggested white oak vs red oak. I have a resource for ash. I know it's used for oars. I plan to cover it with glass.

Any thoughts or suggestions?

[Spot]

White oak is considered superior to red oak as it does not take up water as readily as red oak.

Last summer I got to steam bend green white oak frames into a 1940's Herreshoff H (12 1/2) sailboat. Yesterday I got to steam bend some radiata pine for outwales on an 8' dinghy.

One caveat for white oak I hear is that it is difficult to glue, you may want to research this if the project involves gluing up a blank.

I recently redid my sunfish with a red oak tiller and black ash rudder, neither fiberglassed.
The red oak was on hand in the right size, figured if I had the tiller in the water enough to take up water that I had other bigger issues to remedy...



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