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Hey Lee,

Looks good. Don't forget to scuff sand before bonding.

Tom

Don't know where you are in northern Minn. but Menard's carries both 1/2 and 3/4 douglas fir marine plywood and they have a couple of stores up that way...could be within a 2 day drive.
Tom

Bill Edmundson wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 28, 2020 9:46 am

This is the best price I've found on stainless rub-rail. http://www.marineind.net/index.htm

Bill

Plus one.

The trucking/freight charges are steep. To significantly reduce the freight, they will cut shorter pieces so they can go UPS. (just under 8' for the pieces inside an 8' box).

Tom

Thanks for the acknowledgment Gayle. Hope it helps to sell lots of great Glen-L stuff. Tom

At the risk of forever hijacking Jim's thread... I'll weigh in again. I asked Jonathan this very question. Don't ask, he doesn't comment. I drive by his shop once a week to see what's going in and out. They do service work on wooden boats from NY to Wisconsin. Jonathan told me to put a strap over th...

Carl.... I also like the layout, but I would seriously reconsider the copilot seat. I think I would lower the height of the cabinet and then mount a seat on top with a much shorter vertical support than on the starboard side. That would also mean you would have to consider legroom on the forward en...

Thanks Jamie,

What is a dolly? Here a dolly might be a hand truck, a female, a roller on a rail... Beating on a female in a vice would get me in trouble so that probably is not it.

The method I used would not be effective for hollow back rails, it would flatten them.

Tom

Gayle, I may have put the wrong picture in your mind's eye, this isn't like spring break. We went to the park again today. The parking lot was full again, middle of the week and there aren't any leaves on the trees yet, very unusual. The parking lot probably holds 150 cars. But the park is 1000 acre...

Templates helped. The rails tend to rebound when bending. I make temples and they helped to cut the number of test fits on the boat. I still over bent a number of times, that and kinks. Getting them out was a reverse of the steps taken in the previous posts. IMG_0555.jpg It would have been easier to...

I have a 1" rub rail on the guard around the stern. These bend are roughly 6" radius and almost 90* with a bend at the very end where the guard ends. The cross rail and hammer approach wasn't effective for the sharp bend. For this bend I used a heavy block with a scollop cut away to support the end ...

I am in the process of mounting rub rails. This tread is about bend the rails to fit the boat. My sheer rails are 1 1/4" solid, welded at the stem to make a V. I am using 1 1/2" screws and they are heavy enough to draw the rails into the sheer. Unfortunately the mahogany strips out so the rail has t...

Jim,

Mostly, the lifting eye in the front and a strap over the drive shaft at the strut was used to hold the boat on the trailer. I write "mostly" because a number of boats have bow eyes too, but I think those are retrofits.

Tom

Similar experience here. My weld guy, Jim, works by himself so he is spending his evenings at his home with a bedroom and his days at his home with welding machines. We went to our local park for a walk in the woods and on the beach. We rarely see anyone on the trails this early in the spring, the p...

That last part goes for the dog too.

Thanks Gayle. To add a little to the virus saga. Pennsylvania does something, then Ohio, then Michigan. Yesterday, Ohio shut down everything, and then this morning Michigan's governor announced a press conference at 11. I call the polish guy and he's still working so I dropped off the cutwater at 9:...