Transom planning

I an earlier post, I mentioned that Vivier specified &ldquo;marine sapele&rdquo; plywood for the sheet with the rudder and transom parts. None of the suppliers I checked had sapele plywood, at least not anyone local, so this sheet, along with the rest of the sheetings, is okoume. Now, okoume is a softer wood. (Not a softwood. It&rsquo;s a hardwood. Believe it or not, hardwoods can be soft and…