Steve's FS18

[Jeff]

Nice work Dutch1!!! Jeff

[BB Sig]

Nice work!

[narfi]

Looking great!

[Dutch1]

Thanks Jeff, BB, and Narfi! It's been fun!

[K2FS18]

Looking great!! So close to being complete.

[Dutch1]

Looking great!! So close to being complete.

Thanks man! I only have the front deck to glue down left. I got my trolling motor quick release Monday and waited to see how I wanted to mount it on the front before I glued anything up front. Once it's down, I'll get my hatches completed. BTW, I FAILED in following how you did your drip line. It was too hot and kicked before I could shape it. Ended up sanding it all off. I'm going to use small strips of 1/4 ply.

Then fiberglass the decks, fair, then fair some more, then more, and paint. I'm going to put some non-skid down. I'm on the home stretch now...

Thanks for checking in!

Steve

[Jeff]

Almost done Steve!!!!! Hope your grandfather is well!! Jeff

[Dutch1]

Yep, almost done but can't work on it today. Too many other things that need my attention. Grandad is well. We're going to work on it again tomorrow afternoon.

[Dutch1]

Time for some updates. I've been working on it as I can. We got a lot done over the Thanksgiving weekend but hardly anything around Christmas. Just too much going on. Everything is primed and I'm waiting on some decent warmer weather so I can paint it with the Awlgrip paint. Here's some pics of the progress..

Here's the installed panel. I ended up finding some plastic spacers from Ace that I am using instead of the wood ones in the pic under the wing nuts.


I taped up inside where epoxy might squish out. Then while the epoxy is still pliable, I pull the tape and have a nice clean edge underneath. Sure some tape gets caught but not much. It's time consuming though..


We also picked up two new blue heelers to replace Rosie who passed last December. It's like having two pups on steriods. I love the breed. It's like having babies again...


This is a rough up of what's up front for the trolling motor. I plan on going flounder gigging so I installed a 12v plug for lights. The only thing I'm not sure about right now is how I'll pass the NMEA cable through here but I'll worry about that when I buy the trolling motor.


More updates soon..

[fallguy1000]

Nice work on the panel.