Joe wrote:

Hoping to get a glance at a finished picture.

Are you finished yet Doug?


Pic from this morning
http://sports.webshots.com/photo/261...35692614eOakGw

Here is the most recent pic
http://sports.webshots.com/photo/266...35692614wfZuXl

The stern sheets (seat) is not finished & installed
structurally. The center thwart is not totally finished yet
but does have the knees tabbed in (last night's epoxy job).
The gunwhales are not finished yet and are tremendously
strong, you can lift the boat from any point (and drop it
too, ask me how I know) along the gun'l and there is zero flex.

The bow seat is just now having the foam core cut to fit.

The surfaces look rougher than they are because of the
different shades of filler/mix used in the epoxy. It is all
finished to a satin feel from the peel ply. I will have to
do some sanding & fairing though.

The whole boat is TREMENDOUSLY strong. If I were to do it
all over again, I would use lighter cloth & save a lot of
weight. I wish I had a video of the neighbor & I jumping up
& down on the thwart... think how many boats you have to
step gingerly when it's on the trailer (or any time). I
don't think it would be possible to build anything remotely
comparable in steel or aluminum. This shape could be
approximated with a tortured-ply but it would weigh a lot
more (wood is 35# /c-ft, the foam core is 6) and be less
strong and far less rigid. With conventional fiberglass it
would weigh what the conventional dinks weigh (100# and up).

DSK