I recently was given a canoe carcass. It has all of the SS screws still in the rotted out strips. Both of the inside and outside gunnals are just rounded over strips screwed together with the hull in between. Some of the ones I see online are quite a bit fancier. I'm curious how you would go about making these. Is the inside one just a square strip that has the bottom rounded over for general feel and then the outside one has a lip that covers the hull? If any one has a cross section of this that would be great. I have a full shop and can make just about anything. I'm just trying to get an idea of what is practical and ideal.
BTW I have access to maple and oak and cherry but not ash. Would Oak be ok?