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Looking good.

Just out of curiosity, how do you align a motor like this? Are you mic'ing between the two halves of the couplers?

Thanks,

Hi Matt,

Yeah, I was just thinking about when to pull it out of the storage facility. I got a new trailer a few weeks ago, and need to shift things around so I can sell my Laser sailboat.

It will be fun to see this coming together.

Good advise to other builders, spend the time to get the forma and frames square, plumb and symmetrical. This will save a lot of time later and results in a solid boat.

Enjoy!

Welcome, Chuck!

Nice to see you still plugging along.

I encapsulated the tops and sides of the keel and battens, before epoxying them to the frames. The bottoms I left bare .

Hi Håkan, The sheeting was all dry fitted without glue. I used clamps to hold the sheeting in place and worked from middle of the boat to the bow and stern drilling holes and screwing it in place. Then remove all the screws and apply the epoxy, and re-install all the screws in the same order that we...

How much square footage of plywood did you need? You'll probably need about the same plus a little more for the veneer.

My $0.02

Hi Gregg, I scarfed the 1/4" plywood on my Squirt. I used a router and a jig to do the joints because I have one and felt comfortable working with it. This worked pretty well, but you need to have some way to clamp the plywood flat across the width of the joint. I tried double sided tape which ...

Hi Matt, I bought all my wiring supplies from http://www.bestboatwire.com/ . He is a small supplier, but he had the best prices and the custom built battery cables were first rate. It was one stop shopping for wire, terminals, cables, sheathing, clamps, etc... I use the heat shrink terminals, and se...

Hi Jim, You will probably need to sand down the micoballoons even with the deck, so I would wait to sand the deck until it is all flat. This will help prevent sanding through the epoxy on the deck. As long as you are using the same epoxy for the deck and microballoons, you shouldn't have to worry ab...

I love the wooden handles. Lots of nice details on this Gentry.

+1 on those hinges. They look good, but can pop out and are pricey. I was able to cut my deck boards to fit around them before installing them.

Lurking with interest....

Clever!