Boat Builder Central

BassMunn, this may be too late but you could always use a vaccum bag and some heat to shape your windscreen to your mold. Ive never done this with a windscreen before but im very accustomed to building many race car parts this way.

So i got anxious to see how she handled in the water so i decided to go give her a little water test last night before dark!!! http://gallery.bateau2.com/albums/userpics/22011/normal_DSC02975.JPG view from the bow/stern all glassed up http://gallery.bateau2.com/albums/userpics/22011/normal_DSC02979....

So today i finished with glassing all of the seams on the outside of the hull. Even though i was mixing only 6oz. of resin at a time, the outside temp. was not working with me at all, so i had to really haul butt before it kicked off. Oh well, i got it done without any major problems....will post so...

yeah i thought that boat ramp and surrounding buildings looked familiar. I used to launch from that marina often.

well all of the fillets and fiberglass have been applied to the interior of the canoe now. I decided to use a 3" roller to apply the epoxy and it seemed to work quite well untill i realized i only had one 3" roller. So i decided to cut down a 9" roller and made 3" rollers out of ...

getting ready to take the stitches out and start glassing the inside seams.

in the pics of you launching the boat, is that Halifax Harbor Marina in Daytona?

thanks!

so ive been working on my first boat build the last couple of evenings and im really enjoying it. I decided to build the HC12 to get my feet wet since this is my first stitch and glue style build. I used to work at Boston Whaler building boats for a few years so im pretty familiar with all of the ma...

ok...thanks. Selling the boat on tuesday, the buyer wanted to see a compression test performed. The motor only has 480 hrs. on it. Once i sell this giant paper weight i can start building my PH16