FS13 'Lil Stream

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**** This thread is picture heavy! ****

The purpose of this boat and the name come from my other ongoing build, a GT23 named Midstream. My plan is to have a folding front bow of the GT that I can load/unload kayaks from. I figured I would document this build separate from MidStream.

[Jeff]

BB, good seeing you this week. Have a nice holiday weekend!! Jeff

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It was nice meeting the crew at Bateau. Too bad Jacques was not there but I bet he's having a lot more fun than any of us right now.

Here's tonight's work. Not bad for an hour after bible study... The wife came out and helped me trace while I was making the next cut.


I will try to get another hour or so in tomorrow night after church. I'll see if I can get the wife out there again. I'm amazed I got her out there tonight!

[Jeff]

BB, that is a huge amount accomplished in 1 hour!!! Nice, Jeff

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I had to make a trip to Montana so I didn't get a lot done working on the boats for the last week. Here's a couple of pictures to show a short portion of my trip.


Sacajawea II is a 50' wooden boat that the tour was given on. The tour guide was a Cajun from Louisiana that gave a great history lesson on the area.


I finally had time to get some work done. I have about 90% cut out. I am waiting on a few pieces until I get the hull finished and take measurements off of the hull itself. I built an assembly table out of 2"x8"x12' joists that I will reuse after the boat for my kids fort. I used 3/4" plywood for the table top and some 4x4 oak legs that I had laying around. I didn't have to cut them to get a near perfect height. I got things laid out for gluing tomorrow evening.



Instead of making 4 transom cutouts and then gluing them together, I did two out of 4mm and used 9mm for the other two. It should save me on the gluing time. I am tempted to just glue a 4mm and a 9mm and call it good since I will only be using electric motors with this one.



Here are the transom knees that I did the same as the transom only this time I only cut them out of 9mm instead of two 4mm pieces.


Here's my under table storage. Not full yet but it shouldn't take long to fill it up.

[Eric1]

Looking good Barry! Trip looked like it would be fun.

[Jeff]

Barry, looks like a great trip to Montana, beautiful State!! Nice work on the cutting!! Jeff

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First two splices are made with assistance. The bigger one placed the fiberglass and moved some epoxy around. We'll see how it comes out!

[Jeff]

BB, great family project and glad to see them both involved!!! Jeff

[707dreamer]

Nice work so far. I'm interested in the FS13 so I'll be watching this thread to learn some building tricks.

Karlo,