Plywood, etc. 16'

[OldPack]

Looking for marine plywood 10' or 16' also 16' lengths of ash or cedar-Portland or Seattle area.

[paladin]

On the ply...either you scarph it or the dealer does.....

[gert]

Ya might wanna try "search" on this one (discussed lots). Your not going to find any 16' plywood commercialy, 10' Firply (non marine) is available up here, but it is Fir. Scarfings relativly easy (but don't do the whole sheet, it's too wastfull) with practice and jigs and power tools;)

[Boatnut]

Try Edensaw in Port Townsend, they do have 5ft x 10 ft

[David W Pratt]

A friend and I got 16' sheets of marine ply to build a couple of 6-hr canoes.
The Gloucester Gull in build in the shop is butt-strapped.
Good luck.

[BrianM]

The warehouse to our factory is roofed with 8' x 16' doug fir plywood panels, no scarfs. Built in early 80's I'm sure, point being that SOMEBODY was making material in this size commercially.

[katiedobe]

There was a plywood mill in Vancouver, WA that USED to do scarphs of up to 16 foot of any material they sold, but I beleive they don't do that anymore.
I think it was called, amazingly, "Vancouver Plywood".
Try googling that.

[dmg]

Oddly enough, back in the late 70's, I was attempting to put together the material logistics and suppliers to build Glen-L's Klondike. Ken Hankinson had a note from a guy up that way that was well into the project, and had all the frames done, transom, longitudinals, and several BUNKS of 3/8" marine plywood, long length ( seems like it was mostly 16' ). When I called the owner, and discussed his project, he said that he could have gotten plywood up to 50' if he wanted. I didn't verify this because it wasn't relavent. He did say all oversize marine ply had to be ordered in full lifts. It was Fort Vancouver Plywood.

Dave

[htom]

Fifty years ago you could get lots of plywood that seems unavailable now. I remember someone in woodshop ordering 5'x22' 3/4" marine ply, 1/8" teak surfaces. He did have to order two sheets; they came via truck and were beautiful. He used one for the deck of his sailboat, the other he made into a table and sold, making enough to pay for the boat!

[Ron Williamson]

Our plywood factory made plywood with a lead ply used for X-ray shielding in hospitals.
R