[Zach Matthews]

The front is out of clamps.  The foam didn’t set up until I exposed it to air, which was weird.  Rear rails are clamped up now; should be cutting decks by midweek.  Then it’s all glasswork.

Adam I’ll probably do grit in the paint rather than Sea Deck.

[Zach Matthews]

I use the 14′ Guide extensively.

[Zach Matthews]

I used a coat hanger to form out the bottom, then obviously measured distances, and finally I created templates using old trial displays (you can see a couple nice car wrecks in the background of my pics.) 🙂

Zach

[Zach Matthews]

You guys saying that are all from up north, I notice.

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Mike –

I am not making a direct comparison of distance to miles per hour here.

[Zach Matthews]

Rod companies have a Ferrari problem.

[Zach Matthews]

Yeah that is the idea.

Zach

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Aaron –

I just kept an eye on Craig’s List from time to time.

[Zach Matthews]

All right, so I’ve been updating all day on the IA Facebook page, but this is of course for posterity, so…

Next I cut and clamped rails on for the front deck.  These will get glassed into place for stability but they’re on there with Liquid Nails and they’re probably already strong enough to bear my weight.

I am really enjoying using this locking bench/sawhorse which Lauren’s dad got me for Christmas.  He has a knack for knowing what I will need before I need it.

The centerline of the boat is about an inch and a half deeper than the edges, so I needed to put in stringer rails.  These ended up being three layers of 1/2″ marine plywood thick.  I’ll waterproof them with resin before they get glassed over.

Here are the forms for the lateral buttresses since the boat no longer has a central thwart via the bench seat.

Those get foamed in as well.

Front deck “curtain” with cut out for storage.  Although the floor is higher than the inside of that compartment, I’ll glass it in so any water which gets up under there will drain back down under the floor.  It won’t be “dry storage” but it’ll be handy for things like life jackets and anchors and what not.

And finally here are the decks for the floor:

Front view of where I am right now:

The slowest part so far has been waiting on the liquid nails to set up; it necessarily has to be clamped and it’s been wet, so it is taking a good day for each application.  I’ll have to do both rear rails before I can start making the decks themselves.  Those are going to be the last cuts of wood though. I probably won’t even need my third sheet of plywood.  Then it is all glassing and–my favorite part–painting.

Zach

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Steve –

I am going to do that as soon as it gets above 80 reliably, which it ought to fairly soon.

[Zach Matthews]

Peter –

Very familiar with Microskiff.

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Jon –

Good tip on just waterproofing in with epoxy.  I may do that; the glass itself is probably overkill for the undersides of the decks.  We made fillets last time using the dust-and-epoxy method, it worked well.

[Zach Matthews]

Those are both good suggestions, Brian.

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Jay –

I’m going to glass rails in along the edges, probably 1/2″ thick marine plywood by about 2″ tall.

[Zach Matthews]

Totally stripped down and ready to start getting stuff added back.  But I need to wait for my materials now.

Zach

[Zach Matthews]

One of these days I’d like to beef up the transom and have a custom fabricator try this.

[Zach Matthews]

Poles and brackets are easy: TFO pole and Andrew Wright’s custom PVC brackets.

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Jason –

That’s very intriguing.

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Dan –

If you flip or fill one of these, it’ll sink anyway, I am sure.

[Zach Matthews]

Unfortunately that sounds really likely.

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