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Well, I was all set to move back to GA when Ireceived a huge promotion (second big one in a year and a half) so now I'm committed to WY for a while longer. The bad part was that I sold off my half finished drift boat, my skiff and my plastic canoe. With the river just a couple miles away I decided to toss together a NC16 to get me by for now while I start another drift boat project. I found some halfway decent wood local, and I'll be glassing it completely so this one should last pretty good.

It's nothing fancy, just a NC16, but I'll toss some pics in and then I have an idea for a really interesting blog when it is finished. For now, here's today's progress:

Good start there George We need good people like you here on this side of the states

Thanks Larry!

Welcome back to building George. Sorry you won't be moving to GA though.

Welcome back, George Congrats on the promotion, but sorry you won't be moving back down south. At least you chose the right boat... a NorthCarolina16

Thanks gents. I've built a couple of boats in my time away from here, but they were from other designers. I tend to bounce around a little


Hmmmmm, North Carolina 16...I like it


Larry, I'll make it back to GA eventually. It won't be soon because my promotion to Lieutenant required a commitment at least through the next election cycle of our sheriff so that's three more years away. I will however be back in GA for three weeks in August this year to do some fishing and see my kid brother get married. While I'm there I plan on taking the family down the coast so hopefully I'll finally meet you this summer.

gstanfield wrote:Hmmmmm, North Carolina 16...I like it

TRC886 wrote:... a NorthCarolina16

Not much progress the last few weeks, shot in three different competitons out of the last four weeks. My one weekend off was spent on the garden. Since it's raining like crazy and I didn't really want to build fence in the rain I decided today was a good day to lay some glass on the outside of the hull.

Since I would like this one to last a little while I decided to go ahead and glass the whole thing, inside and out. For the outside I used some 10oz woven I had leftover from the driftboat project. The inside will get some 6oz and then either spray in bedliner or kiwigrip or .... I dunno.

For now though, here's the outside with the 10oz cloth wet out and drying



(yes, the shop is a total mess as usual!)

Did you tape the seems or are you relying on the cloth over all to do the job? I only used 4 oz on mine, and it seems to add a degree of toughness that helps.

Looks good

I did not tape the seams on the outside, just the inside. I figured the 12 oz tape on the inside and 10oz cloth on the outside should be plenty strong enough.

Thanks,
George

Sounds similar to what I did, I did overlap the 4 oz at the seems, so all the seems have two layers on the outside (3 or 4 at the corners), and then the tape on the inside. I would almost bet, that it would hold together with just the fillet material, if sealed properly, that is tough, hard stuff.

There will be some splashing this week! I kinda lapsed on the build thread, but it's built a little heavy, 10oz glass inside and out. It's still easy for two people to carry, but a little heavy for one guy to move more than a few yards.



Next is to paint the bottom and see how she floats. The inside is already painted battelship grey and the bottom would have been, but there was a mixup with the paint.....

Very cool, George

Thanks men.

She floats!

This morning we loaded up and drove down to Glendo Reservoir to play at the "beach" and test out the NC16. It was a nice sunny day, temp in the upper 70's to low 80's and a gentle breeze blowing through about 10mph. My folks are in town from GA so I have plenty of pictures. My Dad has always been a shutterbug, but since getting a digital it's gotten worse. The upside is I have plenty of pics of anything we do together!

She's an easy carry to the water, but then again I'd hope a simple canoe could be carried a hundred yards by two grown men!



...and she touches water for the first time...


First a test paddle with just me, don't want to put the kids in danger if it's terribly unstable...



Stable and good paddling, not bad for such a simple design...


..and now the kids all get a turn...






With rave reviews from the whole crew I even manage to talk Steph into going out for a paddle.



All in all, I'm quite happy with the finished product as well as the simple, yet effective design.

Thanks,
George


G

Beer cheers That will be a great boat for Ebenezer Creek

yes sir it would be!

Very nice! Love the paint job.

Thanks