Boat Builder Central

I would buy the kit,and buy more epoxy when you are close to running out. That way, you can better judge what you will need to finish. A novice wastes a lot of epoxy, I did. Glass the inside and out with 6 oz woven to stop checking of the plywood. Rick

Much easier to work with, not toxic (unless you drink it) Variable cure times, much stronger. All around vastly superior to polyester resin. The marineexpoxy is forgiving to mix (somewhat) and priced right. I built an FL14 about 6 years back nice boat for the small lakes in this area. Rick

I built an FL14 about 6 years back. You'll like it. Nice little helper. My youngest daughter is now 18. I remember those days well, and still miss them sometimes. Rick

A flat bottom boat will knock your teeth out in a chop on Lake Erie. The OB17 is better but still a small boat for 4-5' waves in my opinion. Around here we see deep vee's , with plenty of freeboard and a lot of I/O drives. If you have the time. space and money the C19 would be a great boat for Erie....

If memory serves me lakedreamer/seadreamer, something like that From down under. Rick
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Found it. Rick

Buy a small lawn mower battery at Sam's club/Walmart. About $25-30. Run it until it dies. You can replace 3-4 of these before you can buy 1 decent GR 27 deep cycle. Rick

I used Meranti, it checked after a couple of years. Covered in light FG and no problems since. I had the meranti shipped from BBC and it is beautiful. The only "marine" grade plywood I found around here ( Lancaster) is fir. Heavier, and not near as nice. But with out length of season, shou...

A lot of trolling motors that use power efficiently do so by using a technique called pulse width modulation (PWM) By varying the width of the on pulse many times a second, they are more efficient. At 24VDC the components are smaller (less dissipation) so they cost less. But 24VDC units are more for...

Power is volts X amps (V*I). Doubling the voltage (12 to 24) halves the amps. Since more power is wasted as heat if the amperage is higher (I^2 * R) a higher voltage unit is more efficient for the power it consumes. The 24 volt units usually have better control circuitry that makes them even more ef...

Nice videos. But from one father to another, please put life jackets on the little darlings and a lanyard kill switch on the operator. Rick