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I spent this morning correcting the problem with the bow. As it turned out, I think what happened is that I cinched the wood screws too tight at the bow and this caused the side panels to not want to "bow" outwards the way they are supposed to. Additionally, I don't think I had sufficient ...

O.K., Thanks.

I may have been getting ahead of myself. I'll be working on it this weekend and I'll see how it goes.

I'll e-mail you if we have any problems.

The forward frame is not yet in place. When I dry-fit the forward deck, it wedges up against the sides without making contact with the bow transom.

The sides do form an "S" shape, tapering in toward the bow.

I have glued the bow transom and aft transom onto the side panels of my GF-14, along with the frames for the mid-seat. However, the plywood sides are bending inward (concave) at the bow transom, not outward like they should in order to be able to accomodate the front deck piece. Does anyone have any...

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I am shopping in the online store for some hardware for my GF-14 that I am building. Does anyone have an idea what a good-size bow-eye would be for the GF-14? I'm sure it doesn't have to be too big for this size boat, I just want to make sure it is strong enough for an anchor line, boat trailer, etc...

I thought about a fix. The clamping board I cut is approx. 3"+/- shorter than it should be because of my goof. However, since the clamping boards are sandwiched against the transom, why couldn't I cut a 3"+/- strip out of my leftover half-inch ply to make up for what is lacking and epoxy i...

Oops!! I figured out what I did wrong. The seat frame that is shown above the clamping board has a recessed area for the seat cover. Instead of cutting the recess out of the whole sheet of plywood, I cut a straight line left to right along the highest points of the seat frame, thus, I cut out a larg...

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I'm sure it wasn't the plans, it was probably me. Anyway, I'm sure I can make it work.

I started work on my GF14 today. I am working on cutting out the frame parts from the 1/2" marine ply. I am following the nesting drawings as included in the plans. The clamping board dimensions show that they should be 10-1/2" inches at their highest points. However, there is only a maxim...