Jay Malyon
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In auto body work after a crash, you try to reverse the damage, right? Pull at the point of greatest impact.
Yes.
Maybe it came off a trailer at high speed? I don’t think so though. It must have been one hell of a gnarly river that tore it up. Someone on the internet has to know this boat.
This project is not dead, and neither am I!!!
After a short hiatus from November through the February I am back at it. I have moved the boat home, as work has picked up considerably and I have no time at the shop to get the hard stuff completed. Once it is all back in one piece and sanded inside and out I will drag it back to work and get it prepped for paint. Got the front deck made and in my hands with more interior bits on the way,
Had some help from Our Dear Leader over the weekend and got the details worked out on how to properly glass the side panels into the gunnels. We are approaching the deadline of Memorial day at full speed now. Time to get cracking.
Enjoyed this one. Pretty interesting perspectives on a subject I never really put much thought into.
Sounds about right. Sucks the fish didn’t cooperate, but the fish wagon is always ready to roll on the next trip.
Put a bird on it!!
I just looked at some flannel shirts on their site that are over $200. I could stand side by side in one of mine from the thrift store and you would not be able to tell the two apart. What a joke.
So the bow point is coming together and looking pretty good.
Good idea Zach on how to shape the stern. I took a couple scrap pieces of insulation board and super glued them together. I traced the port side and then flipped it over and traced the shape onto the boards. I took my DA sander and shaped it and finished up with this.
I took that shape and covered it in wax paper, then laid some heavy glass mesh over it that resulted in a rough form that I trimmed to fit.
Im satisfied with the end result, and now have something to build up on.
Man that blows. That was one of my favorites. In the last 3 issues they overhauled their whole style and I kind of figured it was the last gasp. Shame.
Great article and awesome fish! Thanks for letting me get the shot. My mom thought I took the cover photo….
The molded tubes worked out good. I taped the the bottom edge and clamped it along the inside of the gunnel. I used west system six10 to bond it.
It looks pretty simple but it took a lot of staring at it and scratching my head trying to figure how to make it up out of thin air.
Now I can do the same thing on the other side and will have the bow point. Just need to clean the laid up glass a little and trim the edges.
Alright, to fix this jacked up sh*t in the front I am going to mold some glass onto PVC so that I have something to build off of.
I wrapped the PVC in wax paper and covered it with epoxy and cloth. I should have something to work with by tomorrow.
I am going to do my best to get both of these panels bonded in place this week also.
Work has kept me pinned down the last couple weeks so I haven’t had the chance to work on the boat much. I have finished glassing in all the damaged gunnels though.
I ordered the front casting deck from Clacka, which they said will be made from scratch. It will need to be glassed in and will add a lot of strength and rigidity to the bow. Once that’s in place and I repair a few areas on the interior panels, it won’t be long before the interior is ready for paint.
In the meantime, I managed to pick up a decent pair of oars AND a galvanized drift boat trailer locally. Got a killer deal on both. I had planned on building one myself but couldn’t turn this offer down. The trailer is in awesome shape and now I can bring the boat home to work on.
Monday should be quiet at the shop so hopefully I can get some sanding done.
Were you fishing through an outfitter or did you hire one of the local pangas and just tell them you wanted to fly fish?
Bad ass. I love Baja, I could live there no problem. I wish I had known more about roosters when I was there a few years ago.
Holy crap, Jay! What do you know about that photograph??!
I just image searched “snakehead” and that monster from my nightmares emerged. That thing looks like it would eat your soul.
