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I have had it on my hands before and never had any issues with it. The only problems i have are the issues with my eyes that i mention above. I might just use the diing googles you mention thou i...

Just to update that everything is ok. Went out yesterday to it and it was cured thou there was a few runs on it but ill sand them off and put another wee tight coat over the hull again so i can get a...

Yeah its slow epoxy i was using and the boat was cold when i applied the epoxy to it. The boat was in teh shed along with the epoxy but it was far to cold to apply it so i decided to take the boat in...

I sanded the football piece of my cedarstrip rowing boat ready for some epoxy resin/graphite powder. I took my boat indoors to my house as its really cold here in ireland yet my epoxy doesnt seem to...

Couldnt see why not. Heres my transom on my cedar strip rowing boat i built a few months ago.


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I came across this boat when i was doing a search on some cedarstrip speed boats and now im interested to know what actuly happened to it. It says below that it sank in only 1 min, anyone know why.
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I had 100grit in mind but will give it a go with the 80 grit. Will it come of easy enough do you think

Will get up some pics soon. Its very noticable and annoying to say the least

Under my fiberglass is some black mould that set there when i run into a few problems during the build process and now im wanting to cover the bottom football piece with some epoxy/graphite powder. ...

Thanks. This boat is only finished a few weeks ago thou. (cant see the picture you posted)

Heres how the boat turned out


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Not happy is prob abit strong words to say but theres parts of my boat i wish were different. When i first put my sealer coat of epoxy on i was well pleased with all the different colours of the...

It took me about 170ish hours thou if i where to build it again, i know it would be alot less than this because i did hit a few stumbling blocks along the way.Remember that i had to travel 10 mins...

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Thanks everyone and also thanks to anyone whos popped in and gave me advice when i was pulling my hair out at the few mistakes i had along the way. I think ive been bitten with the bug because i cant...

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The fish tasted lovely. As soon as we got home it went in the oven with spices and lemon juice and went down a treat.

I think it would have took 4 of us if i had of put 4 seats in. There was actuly 4 that got in but there was nowhere for the 4th person to sit so he got out and became the camera man,lol.

Took it on its maiden voyage during the week when we got a dry day here on the west coat of ireland. Me and my friends from belfast all took it to the river i fish and i got in, they pushed me out...

Just like the title says, im looking plans for cedarstrip speed boats because im seriously considering building one next year. Prob looking something about 12-16ft. I do love the look of teh...

Right here it is all done and finished. Its been along time coming thou ive only been doing a day here and there at it. now that it sfinally finished all ive to do now is get a trailer or roof rack...

Just poping into say what a fantastic boat. How many hours did it take you to build it

I sanded the inside with 400grit sandpaper and put another coat of varnish to tidy it up as i had a few drools on it. The outside has been done well but even with this new coat of varnish on the...

Heres where i am now. I have 2 coats of varnish inside/outside, im not happy with the inside varnish because i have alot of runs thou the outside is done better. Im going to sand out the runs but...

I dont unederstand quarts and ounces. Im in irealand and we use a different system.

Just like the title says. Im going to put some graphite powder on the bottom of my hull to cover a few bad patches that appeared on it.

Ive been building a cedar strip rowing boat and now im near...

Just out of curiousity, how long does it take varnish to dry on cedarstrippers. the reason i ask this is i varnished mine 2 days ago and it wasnt completely hard. I can make a small dent if i were to...

I remember reading somewhere that i was to thin the 1st coat before i varnished wood but i was thinking as its epoxy, i should just put it on normal. I was out today and the varnish hasnt quite set...

Ive coated the inside with 2 coats of varnish. It said on the tin that i could put the 2nd coat 6 hours later so i didnt have to wait till the next day and sand between coats. I think i put it on to...

I just googled image on the boat hes thinking of building and in my opinion, a boat like this built in cedar would look beautiful. Im wondering thou, would the strips be 6mm just like the canoes and...

Ive been busy fishing and drinking lots of guiness since these last pics as ive had quite a few visitors down to me here on the west coat of ireland. Ever since i built a big house in the...

Im wanting to know the best method of varnishing for my cedar strip rowing boat. Im wanting to know do i have to do 1 varnish coat per day with sanding between coats with 220grit wet sand or scotch...

Cheers man ;) Y>

Ive got all the inside/outside all sanded with 120grit sand paper ready for varnish. If i ever see another sheet of sand paper im going to go crazy, ive went through alot of round oribital sandpaper...

Just bumping this to see where your at now ;)

Get yourself an extractor fan or vacum, i cant stress that enough because ive been in a mess with all this dust. Im still getting isuues with my eyes and sinus's

Have the inside of the hull fiberglassed with a sealer coat and 2 coats of epoxy. Ive run a fillet on teh inside where the transom meets teh cedar and have coated the transom with epoxy both sides....

I have it all sanded inside, im happy enough with teh sanding thou there are a few spots that i can notice where you can see ive used an orbital sander but only if you look for it youll see it. I...

Heres my inner stem, im thinking will should i fill this will some epoxy/cedar flour as this looks abit of a mess to me and dont think it would look great. I dont think id be able to tidy it up good...

I was going to sand the keel and skeg so i could put fiberglass and epoxy over it but when i was putting the last coat on my hull, the resin wasnt as runny as it was when the temp was higher last...

Skeg and keel attached with some epoxy and filler to thicken the epoxy up. It was abit tricky putting it on but got there in the end.
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Would this varnish be ok to use on my hull. Ive been chatting to a kayak builder and he says he does his kayaks in this varnish but id like to hear your thoughts and am i good to go and order it.
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Is there any pictures of a boat built with foam, id be interested in seeing one. I couldnt see foam being as lovely boat as a cedar one, infact nothing comes close to a cedar strip boat IMO

Im building a 12 and half foot rowing boat and im going to make my own oars about 6 1/2 - 7ft. Ill be making mine out of white pine and ash at the bottom of the oars. Im wondering will i have to...

Thats all the outer coats of epoxy on now and TBH, all that whiteness isnt even that bad. You can only see them if you were looking for them. Im now happy that i didnt peel all that epoxy and glass...

Canoz, thanks again for all your avice and ive now just epoxied over it. I sanded the roughness down somemore and just went ahead and put some epoxy over it and while you can still see it, you have...

http://forum.woodenboat.com/showthread.php?143881-My-lawton-tender-thread-Plans-arrived-today ;)

Is there anyway of finding the waterline without putting it in the water

Ive changed my mind about 5 times today on what im going to do next,lol. I went out and had a look at the epoxy i put over some of the pieces i sanded. Im now thinking of just epoxing over it and...

After much thought and advice from other builders on here and here in ireland my 3 best options are for fixing the mess i made of my hull are below. Ive also posted a few pics to show how bad it...