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Launched a 14' Glen-L Drift boat today. Good day , no leaks. Started in December 09.

I built with a centre board trunk, and a sprit sail rig. Sewed sails myself,

Made center board trunk, center board, rudder and oar locks out of aluminum. Made six oars.

All of the sailing rig stows in boat, boat is stable enough to rig on the water!

Unstayed mast is birdsmouth. Used abs pipe to couple 2 sprit halfs, one length of sprit is gorilla glued halfway into the abs coupler.

Had some dificulty bending battens. Discovered I had placed one station 4" shorter than I intended. Used 1/4" ply laminated over building frames to 3/4" for inwales. Used lumber yard SPF for outwales. I was going to steam the outwales. I read that it might be an idea to start getting a bend in the wood before steaming. I laid the matreial on suports that were as high as the depth of the bend at each end. Here on the wet coast mother nature helped me along keeping them wet. I would use the garden hose on them each time I walked by. I piled rocks on them a bit at a time. Five days later the pieses were perfect without steam!!

I made cleats and fareleads out of oak florring we had laeft over from renovating. I used Gorilla glue almost exclusively, Epoxy resin for the fiberglass on the outside. Aura latex house paint for the boat. Cost was about $2000. cdn.

Congratulations. Great looking boat there.

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God Bless our Troops; especially our Snipers

Nice boat and the cost is right, too.

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John Amundsen
Monte Carlo
Winter Haven, FL

Maybe it will be done by G6 and maybe not.

Interesting project,,, You may want to watch the ABS fittings, which I think are plastic, if I am reading you correctly. There is some stress that may shatter the fittings if they are placed middle way of the sprit. We use solid spruce and shape it down fo smaller boats, making it one piece. Properly chosen fir also works. What did you use for your sail materials? Have you got any inwater under sail shots?