I must like punishing myself

[strick]

Glad to see your back at it. I would have bought the boat if I lived anywhere near you. A lot cheaper then a 21 egret which is what I have been lusting for. Nice work as usual. All that foam is not cheap. I just spent $480 on a 1'' 4x8 sheet of corecell ouch!

strick

[billythekid]

strick thank you, I the itch again when my wife asked me when I was gonna finish it.....


I got the outside band fiberglassed with some 1708 along with the the second side of the stringers. getting some warm weather tomorrow and should be able to make some progress in the afternoon










and the bulkheads with a layer of stitchmat

[cdavisdb]

That is going to be one very strong boat.

[gofastsandman]

He does sweet work.

[strick]

You cant buy one the way you are building it. The 20sf is sure a fun boat to drive. Lots of looks and compliments at the ramp too boot.

strick

[RUSTYNTABATHA]

I can pull up in my beat up 20 MA and get more attention then a brand new "xyzqrt brand " everytime.... my wife accused me of buying my boat for attention ... lol

[flyingfrizzle]

Im glad you are back on it instead of selling it...

When I do my 71 sf this is how I would like to go about redoing it. This will give me a good map to go by. Also love how you do your decks on a molding table, so much less fairing and gives you a true flat surface on your deck and the core is sealed better when done this way too. I look forward to watching this one unfold.

[billythekid]

alright had some nice weather and got done with work early and got some work done.

I ground down the boogers off the bulkheads and fitted them into place. I decided I wanted to bed them against the stringers with dynaglass. I got the mat and the 1708 cut and fitted. then I mixed up a gallon of resin and a slow roast and mixed up a bunch of dynaglass and mushed it into emty caulk tubes.

I squirted dynaglass into the cracks and let it squirt out to give me something to radius against.
you can see the green dynaglass in the corners.

[billythekid]

I layed up a bunch of layers of glass for the gas tank bed. While that was curing I decided it was time to remember why I am doing this and to give me some more incentive to finsh.

also had to make sure it still fit....




and it still fits.

[billythekid]

alright moving right along , got the supports stuck in for the gas tank, need to slap some glass on them. I got all 8 holes drilled for the drains and got pvc mounted in them and grounded the ones smooth in the bilge to keep it clean looking. I cleaned up the shop so I thought I could put the boat next to laminating table but there is just not enough room. to work side by side.










got the stringers for laminating table, I am using 16ft timberstrands, they are engineered lumber that is straight as an arrow.





I cut the legs for the outer joist 1/4" longer so the center will be 1/4" lower. so this means after I lay it up and flip it over it will have a 1/4" crown in the center for drainage.









shop all cleaned up, once I get the drain plug drilled out in the transom the boat will spend some time outside.





man If I had a week straight to work on it I could really do some damage....