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I personally think everyone should be mandated to attend a boating school if they plan on owning or operating a watercraft of any sort. What could it hurt other then ignorance? As for the boating license, if it's a one time thing that you can get after completing a boating course, I'd be in...

Horses combined...my bad :rof: To be honest, I have more of a blast driving the Glastron, especially with $4.00/gallon gas. It is nice though to be able to go out and smoke the occasional "enemy" on the river with the Nordic.

Next, I cut out my forward bulkhead by simply using the existing as a template and using the jig saw to cut out. Then I moved on to the side gunnel rails. These are the boards that run on the top of the inside of the boat that are usually cushioned. I only had one to work from as the other...

Update time! I hit the boat first thing this morning and was able to accomplish a lot. I cut some major pieces that include my deck, front bulkhead and gunnel boards. Before I took the grinder to the lip from the previous deck, I made a template with tracing paper. It wasn't the easiest thing to...

Then I cut it to rough length then placed where it's going to sit. Then I took a piece of wood and drilled a hole approximately 1/2" up big enough to fit a pencil so I can scribe the bottom so I can replicate the contour of the hull to the stringer. Then I cut to size and refitted which is...

Finally picked up some wood. The wood I picked up was pretty dry so I went ahead and cut my stringers which comprised of (3) 8' foot sections of 1/2 plywood. I overlapped two of them by 4' and glued them and took the other 8' section and cut it in half and glued onto the remaining section. This...

After that, I got in and did some sanding on my glass work over the balsa core so I don't have to deal with it other then cleaning and glassing with 1708. Then I went the the bow and removed my bulkhead to have better access to the foam so I could remove it. The stuff was nasty to remove but...

While waiting for a way to get more plywood, I put the cap back on the hull which was quite the task since the transom was out-of-whack from being bad for so long. I ended up having to cut into the splashwell to get it back on to fit. It just requires additional glassing which will probably be...

I then added some scrap 1708 to to secure the brace at the bottom. This is how much it pulled straight...I don't have a before picture to compare Sanded the tabbing down and rounded the edge of the brace Then added 10oz. cloth over all of the brace and transom for that matter. This isn't...

Well, the PL Premo fillet looked like absolute crap with bubbles this morning when I looked at. I went ahead and smoothed over that fillet with some epoxy pb. I encapsulated the brace at the bottom and the part that was glued to the transom but I didn't the top or the outside so I coated it with...

Finished gluing in the cross support for the transom with PL Premium and also did a fillet. It was on the old transom when I ripped it out and my new transom bowed out about a 1/8" so this brought it in almost perfect. Sanded where the support will be and 2" additional from the top & bottom...

I sanded the 1708 this morning with my disk sander and feathered the edges with my finish sander before the rain. Then I pushed back into the garage for layer #2. These were full when I started and here is what I went through in two days for two layers of 1708 on the transom. Two thumbs...

This day I broke into the US Composites epoxy since I'm about out of my System Three. The jury is still out on whether I like or dislike the US Composites stuff. Seems a lot runnier and less tacky. Anyways, I put my first layer of 1708 on today and I felt my wallet empty every time I went back...

Okay, I haven't updated the project so here goes. Last week, I sanded down the first batch of filling around the drain tube area. Then I mixed up some more pb with some homemade chopped up glass and put a second coat on to fill out some more. Afterwards, I sanded it all smooth in preparation...

I replaced that last of the core in the back of the boat. Then I fiberglassed the inside part of the wood that butts up to the outer skin where the drain plug is and the bottom edge. After sanding, I glued it in using epoxy pb then used a carriage bolt to draw it in tight until it set up. I used...

Well, I wanted to glass the transom in really bad with 1708 but I didn't get to it. Instead, I removed the last bit of bad core in the stern of the boat. I want to be able to lay the 1708 as far as I want without having to trim around an unfinished work area. Well, the removal went fairly good...

Also have the horizontal transom brace comprised of two pieces of 3/4" ply glued together. I also have a rough cut of a vertical brace (there will be two) that I want but I need the cap back on before more can be done with them.

Made some progress today. I fillet (rounded) the corners with some more epoxy pb (thickened resin aka peanut butter or pb). Then I tabbed in the transom using 10oz. cloth.

I got the transom glued in F I N A L L Y! Here are some pics for your viewing enjoyment. My extra large clamps...thanks for the great idea Old Hickory Felt like I was about to perform some surgery Mixing pb Trowelled out Adding some more