: Beautiful! I actually have a pic of that bow before it went together in my
: research of eye catchers.

: Thanks

You bet. The stern picture reminded me that I used dark flat-grain RWC strips (bookmatched from the center outward) in a "field" on the deck, surrounded by bookmatched vertical grain RWC strips and set off by pine accents--this created quite a lot of visual contrast with just one species of wood. You can get a lot out RWC.

For an even better example, see John Caldeira's site and look at his Outer Island: http://www.outdoorplace.org/paddling/OI/OI.htm
This boat is the ne plus ultra OI for me.