"toller" wrote in
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I cut 2 5/16"x3/4" pieces of cherry 4' long. (somewhere I read that
cherry is rot resistance, plus I happened to have a suitable scrap of
cherry). I can easily bend the strip to the required size. So, what
I plan is to install one 5/16" piece to the canoe by screwing it to
the other half of the gunnel. Then I will glue the second 5/16"
piece to the first, holding it in place with screws and some clamps.

1) Does this make any sense? Will the cherry strips ever relax, or
will they always be under tension?
2) Is Titebond2 adequate, or should I use epoxy?

This sounds reasonable to me. I would suggest you scarf it into the
existing wood, rather than making a butt joint (i.e. cut the existing
wood to a taper using a chisel, and cut a mating taper on the ends
of the new piece).

Epoxy would be a better choice for the glue. I don't know that
cherry is remarkably rot-resistant - you might want to paint the
whole of it with epoxy to seal it.

John