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Hi Ken, Years ago Sweet Caroline was one of the first boats that I was smitten by. Lovely lines, motor well, shallow draft, narrow and easily driven hull form and straightforward construction methods. It is the quintessential boat for choppy local lakes, protected bays and rivers with a modest curr...

What about Sweet Caroline?
pros and cons?

the plans give you the joinery, and cabin dimensions for the Dory's. I'm thinking that once you got the joinery, then you can adjust the width, length, height as you wish, pretty much. The plans give you the frame differences between the different dorys. The cuddy cabins all attach to the boats carl...

1). I don't know of any posts specific to the dory cabins, but, you may find something by looking at builds of boats that use those cabins; Double Eagle for example. Look under the workboats section and you may find designs that utilize those cabins. 2). No doubt you can add the cabin later. 3). The...

That's just me being me.... Thinking of the Hillary Step. There are 3 layers on the bottom and 2 on the sides, thus where they meet at the chine in the forward frames up to the bow there is a noticeable step, ledge, hump, whatever you want to call it. Fairing is the answer, but don't go too far wit...

I don't think any epoxy product has its own UV protection by itself. If you use a filler material the resin is still there. the graphite bottom cote on mine has faded a bit over the years. However, it was done in 2007, it is kept outside, and I've nothing to maintain the bottom. yeah, its faded a bi...

I'll throw this out there just to stir the pot. There are a great many fillers for resin that can be choose from, example: I used graphite powder for the bottom supposedly the graphite is a dry lubricant help the boat slide off the trailer. It gives a black color bottom. There is aluminum powder tha...

I used the semi-gloss varnish on the inside of stripper canoe. I love it. It does not show imperfections like a gloss does. It is also a bit of gloss to it, enough to look good and hide small blemish at same time. Other builders will say to block sand and continue on to a blemish free surface, and t...

I even tried the expensive rollers from West System, I not impressed even by the roller from the so-called professionals!!

So, you in Florida? What part?
I'll be down Florida soon, I'm in coastal Georgia.

I have trouble with rollers putting in air bubbles. I think rollers are the worst, followed by brushes, then bondo spreaders. For wide areas like you have there, I prefer the plastic bondo spreaders, but even then, if you go too fast, or move around too much resin at one spot, you can get that foamy...

Those coconuts look like Buko (young coconut).
Buko juice is a very good drink, from the Philippines,
https://www.leaf.tv/articles/how-to-mak ... ilk-drink/

Be careful of cone shells, cone snails, that are occupied.
Some of them have a stinger that can get you, out of the end !

OH, it cost money?

Well, I went to his website, and clicked on his video (youtube), it was worthless, just awful. I'm sorry for that. He spent 3/4 of the video just talking, then the last bit was after the work was done. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVO2WFSEpx8&t=20s he contributed nothing to actually achieving the...