Boat Builder Central

This type of building goes great a few hours a day. There are portions of the build where you need to spend a long day, like in laying the hull glass, but most of the build works grat with a couple hours work and then let the epoxy cure overnight. The epoxy and glass kit covers exactly what is speci...

I second the clean and professional - your cleats look like furniture joints - very clean! Nice work!

The "raised deck" design of MM21 means lots of room in the berths to sit up, compared to a trunk cabin design. The hull sides make a nice angled backrest: http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii84/chicagoross/transfered20120715006.jpg That's all for now, I have all 4 hatches for the berths l...

The berth tops seemed pretty small when cut, but a six footer could still stretch out, I'm 5'10". Your first mate probably should only be about 5' tall...

Before fitting the berth tops (which fit perfect cut to plan, maybe a first for me :D ), I buildt a compartment for the water tank and then foamed it in. 4 year old foam, even unopened, seemed to have very little expansion left compared to when new: http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii84/chicagoros...

OK, cockpit and cabin floors fitted and glassed. I built "stringers" under, making compartments, not called for in plans but I felt the soles were "springy" and need more support. That's OK, the extra weight is below the waterline... :D http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii84/chi...

Good idea, Larry, I remember that solved the problem back when Bateau updated their site, but didn't work here. The only button on the new menu that gives anything other than "done with errors" is the one that will sell you more space...

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Tha button doesn't work to take you back to old photobucket. Says O have 121 photos but can't see them, Guess we have to wait. Cockpit and cabin soles are fitted, glued and taped, and glassed. Built a compartment for the water tank under the berth tops, installed the tank and foamed it in place. Use...

Yup, same thing, the button for old photobucket doesn't work, guess we just have to wait til someone firgures out what's going on.