The decks were fiberglass over plywood. The fiberglass was replaced with 50 year old vertical grain fir that a friend found in a local millshop. Shiloh is built of primarily native Illinois' woods although the redesigned doghouse is build of mahogany. The hull is white oak and elm over hickory, white oak, osage orange and fir frames. The keel is solid osage - truely a boat of the Heartland.
Masts are yellow cedar.
Here are examples of our labors.