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I'm a little confused now. The GV11 epoxy/figerglass kit includes 100 yards of 4" tape but no 50" wide cloth. Is the bottom supposed to be glassed or not?

So if I wanted to keep the boat light I could build it the ways the plans state (no glass on the bottom), put some wheels on it, get wet to keep it off the rocks, and everything should be fine? Like I said before - I'd like to keep it as light as possible. I would imagine the money I'd save on epoxy...

It's really not all that cold. right now I wear water shoes and just get wet. The problem is that I have to drag it over a sand/rock beach to get my 10' fiberglass boat in the water as I cannot back the trailer across the beach. It's a real bear dragging it back up as the boat is HEAVY. That's why I...

Rick, thanks for the tip on Anacortes. I will check into that. Evan, how heavy should the glass be on the bottom? I'd like to keep the boat has light as possible.

I live near Bellingham in the NW corner of Washington State. I want to build the Gv11 but am concerned about the plywood. We have a Lowes, HD and Windsor Plywood in town but the big box stores don't cary any marine plywood. Windsor has Okoume, marine fir, and Virola Marine. I will be gounding the bo...

If you're from California or NY - it rains here constantly, pretty much all the time - you'd hate it. If you're from anywhere else, it rains but not as much as you'd be led to believe. They say that if Seattle didn't have the roof over the Mariners Stadium they would have fewer rained out games than...

Thank you very much for the help and the quick response.

About a year or so ago I found a link on the old forum to an article an insurance adjuster had describing damage he had seen to new "high tech composite" boats. He had several pictures that showed what junk these new boat are. I have run about 100 searches on the old forum but can´t find t...