One of the most remarkable things about using cedar for my strips was the variation in colors from one single piece of lumber. When I bought the big 17 foot cedar boards they were a uniform reddish brown color and I've seen boats online that looked as if they were stained because the color of the wood was so homogeneously boring.
Thankfully as I was cutting the strips I saw that many times the strips would not only be a different shade but sometimes even on the same strip! As you can see above the strips run from nearly white to ebony with many shades in between including pinks.
At this stage I hadn't started sanding yet so I wasn't sure how much of that color was just on the surface and would last. As you can see there are some black rubber spots where the planer I used stopped on the board for a second but those will all be sanded off in the coming days.
Here's a picture of the stern so you can see how a 17 foot strip just made it to cover a 16 foot boat. This was the closest it got and as I proceeded down to the shear they were plenty long.
At the front I had to trim them as I went because they would otherwise cross the centerline and hit just beyond the stem. I like how the Whitehalls have a nice plumb bow which gives the boat a maximum length at the water line for improved speed through the water.
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