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Time to start adding shims to the floor battens. A warp in the board that I used for the outer starboard batten has resulted in a pretty considerable dip. I knew this was coming. Fairing has revealed just how bad the low spot is. It's in the forward part of the batten, between frames 2 and 4. Unfort...

Agreed! Im a big fan of that color, too... especially contrasted against wood with a nice reddish hue to it.

Looks great, Footer! Keep up the good work!

One of the fun things from watching other peoples’ projects on here over the years has been seeing all the variations of homemade longboards for sanding. Here’s mine. I got a drywall sanding block from Home Depot, took it apart, and re-fit the pieces onto a 18” piece of 2x4. Not sure how it’ll work,...

Thank you, Roberta!

Either your chine is way bigger than the plans call for or mine is way too thin..... I did mine in a single piece - 1" nominal by 2", right? Mine are slightly oversized at 2-1/8 inches high. They're also 2 layers of approximately 5/8" or 9/16" thickness. Some lateral fairing still needs to be done,...

A few more progress photos. I worked on the starboard chine quite a bit during the Thanksgiving holiday.

"Makin' good progress!"

Looks great. It's pretty common to have to laminate that area of the chine. That's what I keep telling myself - it's not a bodge, it's an accepted adjustment :-) It's so common that I consider it simply part of the build. I'll probably have to add a little more to mine as well (again). No worries. ...

Congratulations on the flip, Bryan! Kudos on creating a V-bottom for the Malahini. I'm really looking forward to seeing it in the water & how it performs. She looks great!

By the way, the design is based on these two photos I shot during the River Runs in 2016 & 2017...

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Wed Nov 14, 2018 3:58 pm

Looks good Mike . Love the Tahoe , can the art be on the back and a small Glen L logo on front ? Paula Janis and I will be there in the RV park . My nephew and Alisha are coming again. I am going to try bring the little boat my Grandson built too.

How about this?

The first Gathering I attended was G5, in 2011. It had been only a few weeks beforehand that I started getting curious about boatbuilding. The idea of building one of my own seemed like a far off daydream. I stumbled across the Glen-L website, and was shocked to see the announcement right on the fro...

I agree with Chris and Neel — I don't believe you need to unfasten the chine. You have plenty of wood there to make a good connection. You can work to make the end result more symmetrical through fairing. This will mean removing proportionally more of the starboard chine than the port side, but as l...

The 2nd lamination of the chine went on in 3 sections. The aft section butts up against the middle section. The middle section straddles the scarf joint of the 1st layer, between Frame #2 and Frame #4. The forward section is scarf-joined to the middle section in the curve between Frame #4 and Frame ...

Perhaps white on jade green?

Okay... a little update on the design. I added the years for Ken, 1942 – 2018 (Thank you, Gayle!). I also repositioned the Tahoe (yes, that is Butch) so that the overall illustration could be enlarged in proportion to the text. The lower position of the Tahoe left the back of the Belle Isle a little...