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Awesome work, Mike I think you should be upgraded to "Expert" Jeff, are you listening

... it looks like the cleats are just glued (epoxied?) Yes, they are just glued in place, using thickened epoxy. -- I get the feeling that fasteners aren't used in this construction -- so is that the route to take? That is correct, no mechanical fasteners are used in this type of construction. Chec...

Good to hear from you again, llker That's good advice

TRC, if your talking about the one with the circle, it is a picture of the hull before cleaning it up (I took several for reference) and it was Tabing left over from transom box. Yeah, that's the one. I thought it looked too thick for tabbing, but I could see that the bottom of the hole was the hul...

You're using West System. That's good stuff, but you have to watch out for blush

I also saw a jug of polyester resin Around here, polyester is a four letter word You have been warned




Nice set-up to load your own

Should wrap up stringers in the next couple days, before moving forward I need some recommendations on the hull stiffeners that were rotted and removed as pictured 4607CC75-AACD-4D4C-98E1-E4D942B1931D.jpeg These pieces 3” wide 3/4 thick when removed were only taped to hull no glue, In your opinion,...

OrangeQuest wrote: ↑Sun Jan 06, 2019 8:32 pm Kids look like they are having fun! Good looking build!

X 2. Very well documented, too!

Hello I have today post some pictures of DE23 on my gallery ( phildim/phildim DE 23) I went after on build threads / boat 23 feet/ DE23 and did not see the link to my gallerie Thank for helping the french guy and i will be happy to have any feed back on the build Thanks a lot phildim@aliceadsl.fr A...

Have you seen this thread? It's similar to yours, and I think you'll like it.
https://forums.bateau2.com/viewtopic.ph ... t=Sponsons

Have you read this?
https://forums.bateau2.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=13991