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Update: For anyone interested...or at least curious, I was told by the current KK naval architect that based on the drawings and word around the office, the horizontal planks are just cosmetic. I will repair the vertical stringers and paint. If I want to add a skin that covers the stringers in...

Thanks! I found your blog and saw your gunwales. Great pics!

Ah, yep, that makes sense.

Agreed, the vertical stringers are definitely structural. To be clear, "I've seen more Krogen 42s without the boards than with them," was a typo?

Thanks! Whether they are structural is the biggest question I have...probably a question for Kadey-Krogen design team. The only reason I believe they aren't structural is the size of the screws I've pulled out so far. They are a very small (maybe a #10 or #12) bronze with hardly any thread. But...

Hi all, I'm going to be doing some glasswork which will require the removal of the horizontal inner gunwale boards...for lack of a better term. I'll be grinding, glassing, painting, and filling in areas where water was seeping in below. Luckily, I caught this before too much damage was done...