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I am a little late to the party here but I saw where you were wondering if you should encapsulate your frames. In my opinion you definitely should. Yeah you might get a few drips on the frames but most of the frames won't be visible after the boat is done anyway. If it is not too late then I would e...

Well it turns out my son and I are not going to be able to make it after all I am sure those who will be going will have fun.

We are looking forward to meeting you as well. We are also looking forward to seeing your ZIP

My son and I will be coming this year. This will be our first gathering and we are looking forward to it. We reserved late so we will be staying in a land cabin Friday night and a floating cabin Saturday night. We finished our TNT in 2011 and we will be brining it :) :). Our build is documented in t...

I haven't posted in a while. I applied four more coats of Epifanes varnish on the deck in the Spring. I had some issues with dust so I made a contraption to help keep the dust off while the varnish dried. It looks strange but it seemed to work. We also spruced up the trailer and I made some bumpers ...

We ran the TNT last Saturday. We are running out of days this season :( but we sure have been having fun with this boat! :) :) :) I tried raising the motor because the cavitation plate is 1-1.5 inches below the keel. It added ~1 mph to the top speed (up to 33 mph). I adjusted reduced the motor angle...

That looks fantastic! I'm with Roberta - it is launch time...

Congrats on the launch! We had porpoising issues on our TNT as well. Obviously it is a smaller boat but I tried a 40lb bag of salt up front but it didn't seem to help. I temporarily shimmed the motor with a 3/4 inch shim (see the picture) which effectively increased the transom angle and that correc...

I just couldn't swing it this year but I wish I was there. It sure would be great to see all of those boats!

We recently finished a TNT and for some reason I have been thinking that some day I would like to build an inboard (probably a Monaco). I really have no business thinking about this but like they say, boat building is addictive :). I probably won't do this for some time but it fun to think about :)....

Hey - those look like the same seats (different color) we put in our TNT launched just over a month ago. Your boat looks great! Our top speed is also 32 mph with a 25 HP Mercury. I am interested in what speed you get with the different prop. I'm with Oyster, more pictures and videos please :wink: :w...

Like Pirate said, a no feed back (NFB) system is not necessary for a small boat but I did put one on our TNT. I used the SS151 NFB rack system with a 10 foot cable. The cable is a little long but works well. It is a 4.2 turn lock-to-lock system which has a little more mechanical advantage over a 3 t...

I live in IL and i had my mahogany lumber and ply shipped from canada. I recommend going for the good stuff. Getting good wood and having it shipped is not cheap but this is not a cheap hobby

Congrats on the flip! If you get discouraged just hop in and make more motor noises:)

Andy, On our TNT build, I added fillets along the entire batten/bottom planking junction, keel/bottom planking junction, stem/bottom planking junction, and along the chine edges. I mainly did it to keep water out but I am sure it added strength. I am glad I did it. It gives me a little more piece of...