[Ed]

Professional Boat Builder is a great magazine. I have been a subscriber for 5 years or so.

The beauty of the magazine is that they tell you how it should be done. For example, my restoration buddy told me that when tabbing in a stringer, etc....you always lay down the widest/longest piece first. I said no, you're wrong, you lay down the narrowest/shortest piece first so that you get multiple layers bonding to the original surface.

Well a couple of years later, Pro Boat ran an article on that topic and demonstrated how laying down the widest/largest piece first is best and strongest. So, I had to eat crow....but I was really impressed with how they tested the samples, showed the voids caused by the smallest piece first method and explained everything to their readers.