Once the rebate and profile of the new gunwale piece were right, I epoxied the scarph joint. I did this on the canoe to make sure that the alignment was correct.
After the epoxy had set, I started to shape the new gunwale with a low-angle block plane.
I picked the angle up from the starboard gunwale and trimmed the end of the new piece.
Final shaping was done with 150 grit sandpaper.
The next step is to stain the new spruce to match the original gunwale.
Playing With Boats 
Pretty and pretty smooth …great work as usual