Boat Builder Central

Postby Jeff » Sun Oct 30, 2016 7:34 am

Nice boat in a beautiful place!!! Jeff

Thanks Jeff, it really is a beautiful place. Cant wait to explore it some more when the boat is finished.

Thanks glossieblack! I tried to keep your saying of perfection being the enemy of the good in mind during my build, but it is hard not to get caught up in chasing perfection. I had a local visitor come over and look at the boat while I was sanding on some imagined imperfection and he asked me why I ...

Postby Cracker Larry » Sun Oct 30, 2016 6:53 am Nice clean work there and beautiful picture, rainbow and all 8) Thanks Larry! I have to give you a great deal credit for my build. I copied and pasted a huge amount of wonderful tips and information from your posts and took them with me to the island....

I installed the rear seat and a breasthook and with only a few days left on my trip I put all the hardware on the boat and put it in the water. I only had to move it about four feet at high tide to get it in so it wasn't a big deal. This was not an official splash by any means, still lots of things ...

It has been awhile since my last update. I am heading back down to Toau the first week of November to finish the boat so time to get up to date on the progress. I capped the gunwale with some 3/4" pine strips and tapered it to the rub rail with some epoxy sawdust mix. All the spaces between the...

Drilling and filling. The four holes on the left are for a pin anchor I decided to try out.

Boxes built and foamed.

Ok, made it back from Polynesia. Just before I left Alaska I got word that the supply ship had broken down and that the material I had ordered would be delayed. So I bought a sheet of marine plywood locally and made some educated guesses and cut it into pieces small enough to fit in a Cabela's large...

And then suddenly my time on the island was up. So there she sits very close to being done and getting wet. Total time on the boat was around five weeks, with most days being 8 hours or more of work on it. Having a few more power tools or more help would have made it a bit faster, but I am happy wit...