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thank you , yes looking forward to becoming a real boater

i should have kept track of the hours but life just gets in the way

OOK, I finally finished and got it wet. It floats.... the motor did not leave us stranded on this short little test run. thank you for your comments and interest , my posts here doped off here, as i found a site a little better oriented to the type of boat & project I was doing. I did not do a ...

gentleman, i got an email notice that I got some comments on my post. I am for real, I'm mostly doing this to have a record of what I did and get info from experienced people, which I'm happy to receive and learn from. I can't imagine that I have made this boat worse than the condition I got it in. ...

Nice of you guys to check in. Now I'm starting to see why these projects take so long. A lot got in my way this summer and sadly I did not get much done. I bought a whole wiring harness etc. but did not get it in. It rained like crazy all summer around here and the boat is just outside covered ( no ...

Larry, Thanks for checking in. I understand that looking good will not keep it from sinking, lol. And yes weighing it, that is a very good idea, i guess i will look for a marina that will do that for me. I did put a little drain hole in the bulge at the stern and when i did the foam i warped some wi...

update, if you all have not given up on this one. any way this is a good way to force me to keep a record of my progress. got the white paint on . I used Rustoleum marine paint , looks good. also going to put a little blue on too. I am not going to spend forever on getting up to 2000 grit sanding an...

For those of you with some morbid curiosity of how things are going, I'm thinking this will work. flipping it back over, bought some dollar store tube floats to put under it, in case things did not go over easy lol lots still to do, sanding ever thing , fixing a few spots with fiberglass, add a drai...

got posted twice by mistake .

how do i delete a post i will have to look at the help sections

what I used on the bottom was americalock240 it says epoxy combined with americalock2/400 i think. i did wet the fiberglass out but everything turns black instead of clear, because the epoxy is colored, then sanded it a little, mixed it with the wood flower and coated it over with that and finally m...

I don't give up easy lol, and I wanted you guys to have someone to pick on lol. It is black because the epoxy i bought was in colors it's from ppg americalock or something like that 2part it mixes equal parts. I got 6 each of cure and epoxy for 200.00. Yes I fared it out a little with epoxy woodflow...