Category: Boat Designers

November 1, 2011; 9:30 am – 12:30 pm. Today, with the help of my friend Johnny G, we glassed the hull. Johnny mixed the resin and hardener while I spread the epoxy over the glass cloth. Tomorrow longboard sand and faring compound.

October 29, 2011; 10:00 am – 1:30 pm. This is the 10th day into the project. Today was another short day. I fared out the hull making it completely smooth. Then, I filled all the holes and feathered out all scarf seams.

October 28, 2011; 9:00 am – 3:00 pm. Today, rather than getting right to prepping the hull for fiberglass, I decided to plank the 3/4″ plywood transom with clear full 1″ x 5″ old growth fir. After planing, cutting and fitting the plank to size I glued and screwed them into place with epoxy. Then…

October 27, 2011; 10:30 am – 1:00 pm. Today, I just tab/welded the inside seams. I simply put epoxy with wood flour between each stitch. I also ran this thickened epoxy down both sides of each bulkhead….where the bulkheads meet the bottom and side panels.

October 26, 2011; 9:00 am – 4:00 pm. Today I started by tabbing the inside seams of the bottom panels with epoxy wood flour. Then I planed the side panels fare and planed a 45 degree angle on the inside edges of those panels. Once that was done my friend Johnny G. showed up to…

October 25, 2011. Today I worked from 9:30 – 2:00 pm with the help of my friend Johnny G. I set the two bottom panels of the hull. If you notice on the 1st photo I used 3/8″ all thread to pull the bow portion of the panels together rather than stitches. With this method…

October 22, 2011. Today I started at 8 am and ended at 2:45 pm. I finished up the framing and setting the bulkheads and transom on the strongback jig. I may take tomorrow off 🙂

October 21, 2011 from 10:15 am to 4:14 pm. Today I started building the strongback frame to set the bulkheads at their proper stations. This whole process is a time taker, and rightly so. This is like pouring a foundation for a building. Making sure all your forms are spot on before you add cement…

October 20, 2011. I started work at 9 am and ended at 2 pm. Today I laid out all the bulkheads and the transom and cut them to size. I also had a visitor. One time a Columbia river whitetail like this one just didn’t watch me work, the little guy walked right into my…

October 19, 2011. I worked from 9 am -3 pm today. I lofted all the hull panels and cut them to size. Tomorrow we tackle the bulkheads.