I talked to the guys at the local lumber mill this morning. I have a MR Malecite which I need to work on including gunwales. At 16.6 I will need at least 18' of stock to mill out new gunwales. All they have in that length is Douglas Fir, Red Cedar and Ash. I am wondering if others have used Red Cedar for gunwales before and how easy is to work with ie: sanding, shaping, bending without steaming. I'm leaning towards that over ash as the Malecite is more of a slow river/lake boat for me and not WW. If I was using it in WW I'd go with Ash. Any words of wisdom would be appreciated.
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