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I’m glad you’re on the mend!

Good luck on your recovery!

Thank you for sharing!

Thanks for sharing! It looks like you’re doing a great job so far.

It may have had floorboards at some point, usually made of plywood that sits on the frames.

Great project boat available. I’m not affiliated…just seemed like a great opportunity for someone.

https://bellingham.craigslist.org/boa/7551821872.html

I used one of these Armstrong hatches and it is great - you don’t have to mount anything on the boat which makes the hole larger for access as a storage area.

My folks have one of these props on their motorsailer. It does exactly what you said, when you spin it in the forward direction the water pushes the blades (together on the gear) until they hit the...

That wheelhouse is awesome. If I was king of the world there wouldn’t be any more twin screw plastic Wakemaster 45s produced, just beautiful cruisers like yours. :)

Great progress! That looks like an awesome boat shop.

Nice work! It looks great. What did you use to make the templates?

I’m interested to see the next phase…I love these sorts of challenges and the solutions people like you develop to overcome them. Perseverance! It’s easy to get discouraged, I have felt like I’m...

I’ll have to check that one out. I thought the author might be a familiar name among forumites…I just didn’t recall reading his name. There are some really neat little boats in the book…and he is...

I found a great boat book at a local antique store and as I was reading it I wondered if any of the designs discussed were built/sailed by any forum members. The book was published in 1982 and I’m...

Based on a friend’s experience having a survey performed really helps, along with all the receipts. I find that smaller towns have more pleasant bureaucrats and customer service people. You don’t...

I agree! I’ve broken two homemade tiller/rudder joints on friend’s boats. One time I was trying to help her around a tack by using the rudder to ‘push’ by sculling and the other was when it was...

The cloth spreads the load of the joint out and lowers the strain on the actual contact area. If it’s pretty strong already (i.e. braced and structurally supported) it would probably be fine.

There is a small sawmill in Rainier, Oregon that specializes in cedar but also has some specialty lumber. There is also a big lumber sawmill in Clatskanie (last one in the area I believe) that has...

Nice work!!

Sampson is a quality product.

My neighbors are vacationing in Iceland for the month and have been sending pictures of their trip. An observation they made was that there didn’t seem to be any pleasure boats, just work boats. I...

​Those vessels were owned by the nonprofit Columbia Watershed Environmental Advocates, who I believe planned to restore them, but when the founder of the group died the project stalled and the group...

Great photos - I love the veteran. Those skansie bros. really had a great eye. I would have loved to go up to Port Townsend but I was helping with our yacht club’s annual auction. Thanks for...

I cut a big hole in the hull! After measuring several times I drilled a small hole from the inside where I thought it would line up to the exhaust. I was only 3/4” low from where it needed to be...

Looks great! I love the white and varnished wood.

Congratulations! She looks great.

Sometimes if the exhaust manifold cooling (not sure if this is applicable to your engine) has rotted out it will allow the engine to idle and run slowly but restricts the exhaust when trying to run...

You do amazing work! I love the skiff.

We finished the exhaust run on one side of the engine, now for the other side. My productivity has been slowed by hot weather and local events. The Lower Columbia TSCA chapter put on a Antique and...

Sounds like a great trip! Motion sickness is a bummer but usually goes away after a day or two? I always found that when I was queasy as a kid sleeping helped and I’d wake up feeling 100%. Skookum...

I’m looking forward to checking it out!

Thanks guys. We still have a lot of work to finish, worked on laying out the exhaust today. We’re going to cut some holes soon! Six all told, two little bilge pump overboards, a sink overboard, a...

We are at the point where we need to cut some thru hulls, so we got her loaded up and put her in the water. She sat a little lower than I had anticipated, so we’ll need to raise the waterline aft a...

Boat looks great!

Those old photos are great…the provenance it provides is priceless. The more work I do, the more I learn, the better I get using tools, the more impressed I am with the builds on the forum…and yours...

Thank you for sharing your build. It’s a great looking little vessel!

Thanks! We’re getting there. It has felt good to get the deck hardware installed after mocking it up, planning, and trying to think of any obstructions/details, etc. Getting the fuel system...

Here are a few more pictures. The first is of the passenger’s seat flipped over, we put Formica on the bottom to match the adjacent area with the stove. The seat is removable too, I’m pretty happy...

Next project is installing the windows. Not sure how yet…reading up on it.

We put some trailer guides on, as the roller bunks would damage the jet if it landed on them.

https://i.postimg.cc/phgFj8cD/15828-AE3-53-DE-4341-BDA0-0229-FB42798-D.jpg


I found some cool...

My dad made some nice pads for the cleats and the antennae mount.

https://i.postimg.cc/svWMkv6L/7738-D336-116-C-4624-9-A8-B-064976-EF9-ECF.jpg

Hatch right before getting bedded down, it...

We painted the decks.


https://i.postimg.cc/4msPykDB/5-F986910-0936-4-A53-999-A-FF82-D4-B48976.jpg

We installed Formica on the seat bases.
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It’s been a while since I posted, I primed the deck after fairing and installing the hatch base.

https://i.postimg.cc/0bkjrccp/49576-DFC-F721-4-D94-850-B-EE3471-F8407-C.jpg

The seat boxes got...

Thank you!

I will try that, would you put in unthickened and then thickened? What thickener would you recommend?

it appears to be one piece.

That's a good idea.

The mast on my El Toro is cracked/checked pretty badly. I'd like to repair it as it's original to the boat. The boat is hull #337, so it is pretty old.

https://i.postimg.cc/B8Rqpwt9/mast.jpg
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Have you read “Trekka around the world”? It’s a great book but it is much as you said, there are some exciting adventures, lots of great places, interesting people, and opportunities to learn. My...

Chris - the locks are an adventure every time! I think we all have an embarrassing story related to locking through. Here’s mine:

It was Memorial Day years ago. I had taken my Cal 34 to the...