| By lunch on day two the hulls took shape.
The greatest thing about... | |
| | | stitch and glue boats is instant gratification, just 2 days and they're boats! | |
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| | bow detail before gluing the seams | |
| | | this is the stern and #3 bulkhead after stitching | |
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| | | my skerry flipped over, ready to glue the seams | |
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| | John Harris checks the stitched hulls for symmetry | |
| | the epoxy station
got your gloves on? | |
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| | My HS bro' Craig let me sleep on his boat the week I was in Annapolis 1k thanks! | |
| | | seams glued, wires pulled, inside glassed | |
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| | Quittin' time Friday night | |
| | | rails on, gluing in the cb trunk, and seats | |
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| | Tomorrow morning: mast steps and routing cb openings | |
| | | Saturday! 6 days, 6 happy new skippers, 6 finished skerry hulls! | |
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| | I went to Pennsylvania to finish my skerry | |
| | | Uncle Phil's place is just up the mountain from a Percheron farm | |
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| | My pal Glen let me use his heated shop, SWEET! | |
| | | After some sanding and more sanding, my skerry gets 3 coats of epoxy... | |
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| | inside and out (with sanding between coats of course) | |
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| | | sometimes right through the primer! | |
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| | ...then more primer and, you guessed, more sanding! | |
| | | After masking the topsides get varnished | |
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| | then more sanding and more varnish | |
| | | and more sanding and more varnish | |
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| | Over she goes. The topsides are masked and the hull... | |
| | | gets painted. And sanded and painted and sanded,,, | |
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| | After the paint and varnish cure for one week - HOME! | |
| | | I learned that in boatbuilding, there's no such thing as too many clamps! | |
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| | Dec. 26th on Lake Michigan! (it didn't say no launching) | |
| | | Wow she rows nice! ...and now for my shameless plug: CLCboats.com | |
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