Boat Builder Central

It looks like you aren't lined up very well in a couple spots, and have hard contact between hull panels rather than a gap . . you can't go back and fix alignment after you've glued it, but I fully understand the desire to feel like you're making progress. My suggestion (freely given and you are fre...

That is correct, you will have a gap there that gets filled with epoxy/woodflour putty before applying fiberglass tape. Of course, you'll need to round over the newly squared edge before applying tape, so it will be able to make the turn.

Looking good, but the rum locker looks kind of small!

Seriously, it's good to see you're still plugging along and actually getting there.

Most of the designs here don't require a ton of strength from the zip ties, but there are one or two that require substantial force to pull the bow panels together and some builders find that using copper wire in a few spots is helpful. Not part of the original question, but backing up the zip tie w...

Congratulations! Glad to hear it runs great.

She sure looks pretty with some jewelry on!

You must not have taken pictures of the bad parts, because that all looks good.

As long as we're posting anti-complaints, I'll pile on! Everything is good here, no issues.

Thank you, Jaysen

Your photos do a good job of depicting just how many parts there are to a boat like yours, and they're coming together!

I think there are a few ways to do it, I only know one: I open the photo (don't use thumbnail size) and right click, copy image address, paste that into the message and highlight it, click on IMG key above (looks like a landscape picture) and that does it. I click on preview to be sure I got it righ...