The 2 pieces of mahagony rails are attached together and glued with epoxy...

S C A R F I N G ....by popular request, here is a better picture of how the two pieces of our toe rail are "attached" together...a method also called scarfing.  The "slits" in both pieces of wood in which biscuits are inserted are cut with a tool called scarfing router.

The drawing of Brian Dixon is to be found at this link on John's Nautical Website...:
http://www.boat-links.com/Scarfing.html

Today although rain was forecasted it just started at 17h00! We used the time well to do a bit of painting and then drove to our favorite lumber yard Card's Lumber on Highway 38 to buy more mahagony wood.  We like the guys there: very knowledgeable, generous (they'll do cuts and planing for free) and the prices are good! Heiner spent the whole afternoon cutting and sanding while Marleyne...played ! Yep, I visited a couple of garden centers, prepared trellis for clematis and for beans! But I also prepared a boeuf bourguignon!!! Somebody has to feed the crew!