Tachtaí

These are know by various names, elbows or knees or God knows what else but we're just going to go by the Irish name which is tachtaí (phonetic: tocktee)
These are made out of a hardwood normally, in Ireland they might be traditionally fruitwood that had the right bend in it or hawthorn or summat like that, Oak or ash would do, I had some 2 inch thick maple hanging around so that's what I ended up cutting out on the bandsaw today, kinda difficult with the cast on but got her done in the end.

6 Canadian maple tactaí ready to go

Again this was designed on Google SketchUp (free CAD program with lots of tutorials online) and then I used BigPrint to print it out to make a template. This can of course be easily drawn out on a piece of wood instead with a pencil and a ruler and cut with a coping saw if anyone is worried about not having these slightly more advanced tools. There are six of them and they will be pre-drilled and screwed on to each side of the seats and the upper gunnel will run along the L-shaped section in the top left there.

Next on the list of things to make are the thole pins and these other things that I don't actually know the name of... I'll call em pipe receivers for the moment...