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Sanded some more today. Hoping to fill the rest tonight and potentially tape the seams.

Nice and fair, looking great 8) The chine step on the side will use a nice amount of thickened epoxy to fill them. You can use some scrap plywood strips in the chines to fill them some before filling the chines with the thickened epoxy to do the chine flats. It will save you plenty of epoxy using t...

Zac, Welcome to the Forum. Nice work so far! If you can, try and run the rest of the fillets and then follow up with the fiberglass tape right after (wet on wet). This will save you a lot of time not having to sand. Reid Reid, Thank you, thank you. Yeah that’s the game plan with the help from the M...

Thanks all for your kind words! Definitely having a lot of fun with this build. I can see how people get the “building bug” :D Here comes the ugly stages of boat building 😂. Epoxied between the stitches last night with the Mrs. I’ll let them cure for the day and pop the stitches this evening. Going ...

Jeff wrote: ↑Thu Oct 17, 2019 8:11 am Nice Zac, really good start to the OB15 build!!!! Jeff

Thanks Jeff! It’s really such an awesome process. Definitely have had fun so far!

Hello All, Zac here in Central FL building a family boat for my wife, son and myself. Decided on the OB15 with a center console due to storing the boat in my garage thanks to my lovely FL HOA (insert sarcasm) :lol: Anyways, I’ve had it for a week or so and have made, what I feel is pretty good progr...

Glad to see you back in action! Looking great!

mdf molds were included with the FS19 kit. Awesome, great to know! Thanks for the confirmation Pee Wee! Well it looks like my flight is going to be moved back a day due to the hurricane. May run to Lowe’s and get some 2x6’s today before the storm get here tomorrow evening. Stay safe fellow Floridia...

Looking good GuyP and thanks Cape Man for the info. I should have specified that I’d be buying the kit version, I did read somewhere that it’s possible they come with the molds? Could anyone confirm this?

Hello All! So after speaking with both Jeff and Reid I’ve ordered and received the plans to begin on my 1st boat building endeavor. I’ve got some wood working skills but am by no means an expert. I’ve built some furniture and have done some custom closets and accent walls but that’s about it. My pri...