FS18 on Cape Cod!

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Re: FS18 on Cape Cod!

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Fuzzytrout thanks for your detailed descrition of your fishing areas and what you do. While I think the LM18 would have been a better boat for you the FS18 will work.
Keep us up to date with your build with pictures and then some fishing tales. You do some beautiful art work.

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this wasn't much fun.... keeping them vertical instead of flat helped, but it was still a hot mess
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I tried to clean them up the best i could before.
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and then after used the sureform to clean em up!
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then spliced all my panels. I was sure to use the router to take out some material on the outside so the glass splices would sit flush!
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Cutting the frames to fit the stringers! I cut the slots with just a hand saw and a square to get just right. slow and steady builds the boat!
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8-O :-D Somebody sure was smiling down on me lastnight! woohoo!
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I can't believe how good it all lined up
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I have my decks and 5" gunnels in place already, so these little zip ties help ensure it was all lined up.
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Another helpful little zip tie to ensure everything is flush. I am going with the flush deck obviously.
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primed the seams with some neat epoxy and then added some wood floor in bewteen the zip ties..
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Trying my best to no waste epoxy and over use epoxy just to sand it off the next day ;)
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yet again! I'm amazed how good this lined up. Thank you for such good plans and thanks so much to everyone on this forum past and present. If it wasn't for this forum I dont think I'd be on boat #2. At first I was thinking I made a huge mistake by not ordering the precut kit so everything fits nicely, so this is huge weight off my back about how nicely it turned out!

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Nice work!!! Jeff

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TomW1 wrote: Sun Oct 31, 2021 4:38 pm Fuzzytrout thanks for your detailed descrition of your fishing areas and what you do. While I think the LM18 would have been a better boat for you the FS18 will work.
Keep us up to date with your build with pictures and then some fishing tales. You do some beautiful art work.

Tom
thanks Tom! I'm totally self taught artist, I do both watercolor and oil paintings. I have my own gallery here on cape cod ( :help: its so much work, which is why building a boat seems like FUN to me ).

you can check out my work on my website, www.davidriina.com

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Jeff wrote: Tue Nov 09, 2021 2:05 pm Nice work!!! Jeff
Thanks so much Jeff! you guys win the award for fastest shipping on the internet everytime I order something!

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Thank you for the kind words!!! Jeff

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Fuzzytrout wrote: Tue Nov 09, 2021 2:17 pm
Jeff wrote: Tue Nov 09, 2021 2:05 pm Nice work!!! Jeff
Thanks so much Jeff! you guys win the award for fastest shipping on the internet everytime I order something!
Isn’t that the truth!

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Man, great progress, you are making it look easy, the way it should be!

All the work is looking good and clean. what a joy when everything lines up like that, stoked for ya!
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VT_Jeff wrote: Tue Nov 09, 2021 9:39 pm Man, great progress, you are making it look easy, the way it should be!

All the work is looking good and clean. what a joy when everything lines up like that, stoked for ya!
my SK14 i nervously rushed along, like most new builders!

this build im taking my time and just trying to work neat and think things through before I do em. This boat I plan on keeping for a long time.

when you are back on cape cod ill take you out on the new FS!

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Fuzzytrout wrote: Tue Nov 09, 2021 2:02 pm
Another helpful little zip tie to ensure everything is flush. I am going with the flush deck obviously.
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Impressive they way you've gone to the trouble of getting hull and decking panels aligned early on. :D
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