Timbers? Ribs? Frames? First off, we had seven great days in France! TL;DR: There seems to be no consensus on what the things are called that run from the keelson (if there is one) athwartships (across the hull), curving along the inner hull and up to the inwales (the inside part of the gunnel). One very old source has no entry for Frames and says this about Timbers and Ribs: Timber. A general term for all large pieces of wood used in ship-building. Also, more particularly, long pieces of wood in a curved form, bending outward, and running from the keel up, on each side, forming the ribs of a vessel. "Ribs. A figurative term for a vessel's timbers." What?!? I choose to call them ribs for no particular reason. But I also call them sticks because that's what they are before they go into the hull. As usual with this project, there was a bit of trial and error and lots of how-to videos. Wood softens when heated up to a certain temperature. Fortunately that temperature f...