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Originally Posted by herr_oberst
That's really beautiful. How're your hands doing? Do you have to wear gloves to stretch the sinew? Do you wet the sinew so it shrinks when it dries?
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You use three "running" lashings for the sinew on the keel and the two stringers. So you cut a length of lashing material equal to 2-3/4 boat lengths, then you wrap the lashing around a piece of scrap wood like fishing line. You are able to pull very tight on the lashing by using the scrap wood as a grip. If you look carefully at the middle-left of the pic of the lashings you will see the sinew between two ribs, parallel to the stringer.
You don't wet it afterwards. It stays very tight.