"When our backs are to the wall, we'll turn and fight"

One of my previous errors, several years ago, was starting the project in the first place.

Another one was cutting the timber for the cox's seat back a bit too short. One of the pleasures of working with wood, however, is that such mistakes can be rectified with ease, or glue.

We have a bit of a theme going with mahogany: the ends of the foot stretchers, the breasthook, the rudder yoke and the oars all have what we can pretentiously claim to be 'detailing' (thanks, Kevin McLeod) using the left overs from the thick length we bought to make the transom.

It therefore made sense to stick a couple of bits onto the otherwise-too-short piece of Fijian kauri. While I was at it, I also added a mahogany edge, top and bottom.

The added extras

I even remembered the early lesson we got that you cannot have too many clamps.

Tada!