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that is a great shot of Chris's son

Hey, Thanks!

Cool Musem, love the fact the boats are still wet vs. dry rotting in some pre-engineer building call a museum.

Have to use an etching compound on the alum. prior to using epoxy or as you found out it will not stick. If done right the aluminim will fail prior to the epoxy.

There's a web site www.fiberglassics.com has some realy cool vintage pic's of fiberglass boats and some really strange ones at that.

heres another wreck on the the shore at Au Sable Point Not as neat as the fist but a great composition

The Chin rails I mill down to 1/4 thickness and laminated two layors. Theres a really good book out by Gougeon Brothers out of Bay City Michigan (makers of West System Epoxy) call Gougeon Brothers On Boat Construction. Great resource for technical and also proceedure and inovative construction...

How about a ship wreck...it's forever boating considering it sank off of South Manitou in 1961

Heres one of my daught at 5 with a blue gill she caught.

heres a really nice black and white image from Fiberglassics web site. Just a great artistic pic.

Chris, The transom and keel were set in the strong-back frame and secured with screws from the underside. From there all of the other chin rails were installed around the frame and secured to the transom and keel. The bottom is made of two laminations of 1/4" doug fir which are stappled to...

Not a problem. I've added in the under construction shots showing the strong back frame which we bent every thing on. My intial intention was to build ten of these a year on a by order basis. To keep with the custom theme I was gong to change the material and finishes each year. Well...

About 12 years ago my wife and I set out to design and build our own drift boat for fly fishing on Michigan rivers. Heres a couple of shot of it underconstruction and completed. It's bin in hard use since I completed it in 1996. Specification: Length: 14'-6" Beam: 65" at gunnel and 49" at...