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Thanks guys, taped inside seems yesterday, will flip her over and start on the bum today. Mucking around doing fillets and tape on the D5 made me think about the size of the gt27 (started to get a little scary :!: ) theres 634metres of biaxial tape alone in the build, quite a lot of them are 3 layer...

Plans arrived yesterday for the D5, so thought I would start knocking it together. Did not take long to cut out all the pieces, bit of a fiddle trying to stitch her up but with a lot of swearing and a few (quite a few) beers she came into shape (well close enough). http://gallery.bateau2.com/albums/...

Nice work Gerry.
Looks like it will be a great Rotto boat
Now you have her flipped the work will really start!

Richard

Have now cut out all the ply to stitch the hull together, still have a couple of stations to go and a bit of panel splicing, but sofar look to be on schedule to start stitching the hull next week. Noticed that previous GT23 and one or two Gt27 builders built their hulls on the jig system, I plan to ...

that one certainly went through to the keeper Maybe a nick to first slip :lol: I have the DE23 plans and was hoping to put an inboard diesel in it as well (It's amazing how many people ask the same question abou this design). Like you I love the style of the boat, but have now opted for the GT27 ri...

In the 70's & 80's I lived in the North west (Pilbara & Kimberlies) we used to fish the Degray river and would pull some nice barra. Used to also get lots of Mangrove Jack in most of the coastal creeks they are also great fighters and good eating, but nothing beats the taste of Barra. We wer...

Congrats on the launch, boat looks fantastic (But it looks bloody coooold!)
Like the high sheer.
Richard

G'day sideslippa saw your hello to leefitz & was wondering how your boat is coming along? Have not seen a post for a while, thought you might have buggered off for chrissy holidays?
Cheers
Richard

Just cut out all the bottom panels, splicing starts this arvo. OK which edge is stitched together to form the keel? (I can hear you laughing already )
Is it where the baseline is drawn or is it the other edge with the large curve?
Thanks (I think!)
Richard

Got the dimensions worked out ok, just took a bit of tooing & throwing over the net. The plans seem to be missing bits and pieces of info, looking at the history of the plans development I can see why there are a few holes but if Jacques dosen't mind answering questions then I don't mind asking ...