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Wow, great boat and great area too!

Awesome! Looks and runs great, congratulations!

Nice recovery, looks great!

Nicely done! Looks great! I don't know Honda outboards but is it possible yours is trimmed up too far? That would tend to lift the bow at speed and cause porpoising. A quick check is to make sure the cavitation plate is parallel to the bottom of your boat as a starting point. Then adjust it up or do...

Welcome! You've come to the right place. The Malahini is a great design and there are several builds to be found and followed here. Ask any and all questions you have because there is always someone here that can help. If you like, some highly recommended reading is the Glen L book Boatbuilding with...

Some marine plywoods are more flexible than others. The Hydrotek Meranti plywoods are stiffer compared to Douglas Fir plywoods and Okoume plywoods, but it works well for flat pieces and very strong. I am using Okoume for the planking on my Malahini for it's better flexibility on the hull shape. Defi...

Carl, I understand your desire to get your drain tubes angled in order to drain all water from your boat but I think it's a better idea to leave them as-is. The way the tubes are swaged into place won't allow them to be angled, they need to be perpendicular to the transom. If you try to go at an ang...

Sounds great and bravo for wearing a dust mask. It'll help keep your lungs from being irritated and keeps your sneezes from grossing out others.
I'm watching your build closely, I've been building a Malahini too, have a huge pile of parts and supplies waiting for me to assemble it.

And precutting the face plys with a utility knife helps minimize splinter tear out. That trick worked great on my hydrotek meranti parts. It gave me a clean line to sand/trim to after cutting out the piece. Meranti is stiff but very strong, I recommend it for all the flat plywood pieces. Okoume is m...

Builder's trials! Bring it on! This is so cool.,

Your waterline on your motor looks about right, maybe slightly higher up than "usual" on a 20" transom, but so much depends on the hull shape and size for the actual waterline. A big part of the uncertainty with your boat comes from the added hull depth with the vee bottom. If your fi...

Wow, you've made great progress in a short time. And that's a great shop you have. I highly recommend using battens to monitor your progress when fairing, for instance you could try long 3/4" square stock about 8-10 ft long or you can use a strip of 3/8" plywood about 2" wide and 8' l...

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That looks great! Nicely done.

That looks great! Nicely done.

I don't know of any Monacos with 4.3L V6's but a few Barrelbacks and Key Largos have used them. The V6 is a great choice with power output will be slightly less than a 5.7L/350ci V8 but gas economy should improve slightly. Looking at the GM marine engine literature, both engines will be about the sa...