Boat Builder Central

As a builder of one of the first FS 19s and having had now a few years of experience fishing and running the boat I feel compelled to give my thoughts on it. The FS 19 is a very fuel efficient and sea worthy hull. When built with spray rails you will find that it rides extremely dry. It gets and sta...

I went through several sanders in my various builds. After a while I just started buying tools at Harbor Freight and consider them to be fairly disposable.

Looking good. Keep it up!

Edd, On the FS 19 that I built I laminated the rubrail pieces to the hull sides and created a fillet on the underside of the rubrail. Later on in the build when I added the gunwale, the joint of the gunwale deck, hull side and rubrail was rounded over. After adding the inwale and rounding that joint...

That’s a real nice triple tail. We catch them here in the summer. Some guys target them but mostly they are a welcome accidental catch when fishing for trout and reds. Have to be 18” to keep in Georgia. Very fine eating!

Fallguy, As someone who retired to the coast from the upper Midwest I wanted to pass along a few things I’ve learned. In the coastal areas of Texas and the Deep South you will be living in a semi tropical area. The winters are like a Minnesota fall. The summers are when you go back to Minnesota, at ...

You will be coming right by me as well. Happy to host you for a few days along the way. I’m located just off Exit 67 on Interstate 95. 30 miles North of Brunswick, GA and 40 miles South of Savannah. Got plenty of room at the house or at my In Laws condo. Lots to do and see around here. The fishing t...

Welcome to the forum!

Congratulations on your decision to embark on a boat building project.

Happy to have another builder from Southeast Georgia. There are a few of us on here.

If I can be of any help at all do not hesitate to ask.

Best wishes on your project.

Sorry, after more thought, going to have to pass.

I’m interested. Getting the bug to do some more projects. Just got to figure out when to get down there. Could maybe get there on Friday the 2nd of July or possibly at the end of this week even on Friday June 25th. Let me know what day works better.