I love this thread! I think its so cool that there are people out there than can do stuff like this on their own.

I'm not really alone, there are two of us that are on it full time, and if you read alot, it's not as hard as you would think, everything you need to know is on the internet :) Sometimes being covered in glass powder is grueling though, but at the end of the day looking over what you get done makes it worth it.

Nice Blouse!!

keep it up gringo!

:D

Crappy day yesterday, we had all the console pieces laid out on the table, the day before, and yesterday we were supposed to put them together, but the resin decided not to dry. We put the pieces out in the sun yesterday and by the end of the day they were drying but still not ready to unmold. Today will be the third day on the table, we're hoping another day in the sun will get them ready to come off the table, but we'll see.

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So with nothing to do on the console, we just spent all day trying to figure out the design of the front benchs. Here's what we came up with.

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...oprogressc.jpg

We had previously finished the two sides of the console though, and then we made two of the pieces to connect the console, so while the rest is on the table drying, we figured we'd put together what we have. We put boards in the corners to hold it in place while we let two small tie ins of glass dry. The boards will come out when we are done. Here's what we have got so far today:

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...leConsoleA.jpg

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As soon as this dries we're going to yank out the lumber, and hopefully late in the day the other pieces will dry and we can finish our console!!!

Had a nice super hot hour out there today with no clouds from 12 to 1, and finally the resin kicked on most of the pieces. There were a couple of spots where it wasn't drying so we just cut those sections off and cleaned in with thinner, and put all the bad places on the outside and we'll cover them with a 1708 when we do the corners. Very productive day though, i've always wanted to build a center console out of corecell, today was the most fun I've had in the shop to date. The whole console like it is now without the corner glass tie ins weighs about 30 pounds, my console on my 31 ocean master weighs about 250 pounds, so we have taken out a ton of weight! I got carried away on the pictures, i had the camera in my pocket all day.

We used these 2X4's to square everything up, and stuck everything together with cabosil and PE resin. Here's the 2X4 guides in place for the first two sections:

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/C...osFishingA.jpg

And then we stuck the two sections on:

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/C...osFishingb.jpg

And then we stuck the big board on top of the front piece, and to keep it lined up we put in three screws from the bottom while it dried. The front also had the slightest bow to it, so we straightened that up as well with some 2X4's

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/C...osFishingc.jpg

And here is Harol trimming up the "whisky plank" of our console

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/C...osFishingd.jpg

And here's the finished product. Not bad for two days worth of work (and three days of drying time on the table for bad resin! :) )

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/C...osFishinge.jpg

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/C...osFishingf.jpg

Tomorrow we still have to glass all the corners and cut out the door to the bathroom. I'm thinking of using the cut out for the door as the door itself, we were going to do a teak door, but the corecell door would last longer and be lighter so I think that's the route we are going to take. I hope to have this thing glassed into the boat by tommorrow night, and maybe start on the front bench?

man i cant wait to see it all put together

This thread is moving along nicely.

What motor to you plan on putting in it? Maybe I missed it?

Cummins B series 210hp with a ZF 63A 1.5 to 1

damn! now THAT'S a console! She's really going to start looking more and more like a boat soon.

Well today was a productive day again like yesterday. We started off by rounding all the console edges.

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...Installedg.jpg

And then we stuck it in the boat and glassed it in!

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I really like the boat with the console in it, it isn't a panga anymore, we're officially a center console. The console was a little wider than I expected, but there is a ton of room on the inside for the battery, bathroom and then quite a bit of dry storage. It does look a little further forward than I had in my head, but I'll make the roof/tower a little further back and it should look normal. We cut out the door as well and here is the door:

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...Installede.jpg

I was hoping to do the door in one piece, but it will hit the side of the boat, we're going to have to cut it in half, but that's ok it's light and it's got a good shape to it.

And then so we didn't get lazy tomorrow, we cut out the front bench and glassed one side. Tomorrow we might have the front bench in the boat. Under the front bench, we are going to try to get 8 rod hangers where I can fit my offshore gear, that will be the tricky part for tomorrow.

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The bench looks HUGE, but after i put the border in the front of the boat, it'll only be about 22-24 inches deep where you can sit. So it's a nice deep bench, but not as big as it looks in the photos. Tomorrow we are going to see if we can get that bench stuck to the boat! And I might start cutting out the motor box and leave it drying on the table. I'm starting to get more and more ambitious, we have to stop construction in 18 days so i want to get as far as i can!

yeah, i really like the console, and it only weighs 37 pounds. Check out the new pictures of the installed console above! :D

I check this thread every morning! Yall are moving pretty swiftly on it, some rebuild take years.

Last night I was laying in bed looking at Costa Rica stuff online, my wife siad you really want to do to Costa Rica huh? I said oh yeah! Who knows maybe one I'll be fishing on it!

This thread makes me want to fish on it. Really enjoying all of the play by play pictures.

I am really excited about fishing on it too. Yesterday the help caught me standing in front of the console pushing down the imaginary gas lever, i got made fun of... :)

Didn't get as much done as I wanted, but we did get the basic idea of the under bench rod holders in place, we'll finish that out tomorrow and then I'll post some pics. The idea is the front piece will have four holes in it to put 4 rods in, and then the back two holders will have two holes in each side. And 4 per side will be 8 rods. After we took this picture we got everything glassed up.

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...odHoldersa.jpg

And then this is the motor box on the table. The first view is side view of the motor box and then the second picture is the rest of the box on the table.

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Hopefully we'll get the rod holders figured out tomorrow and the bench installed, and maybe the box put together...we'll see

Got a little done today. We started by hole sawing the front rod holder that will be under the seat. I'm going to buy Harold a ruler, one of the holes got away from him, but it's under the bench, so we decided to leave it.

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...RodHoldera.jpg

After we got the holes made in the rod holder, we put the bench where it goes and then marked and cut down the center to get it at the right height. This kind of shows how light it is, this already is all glassed up except for the top, and the little guy carries it like it's nothing.

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...odHoldersf.jpg

And then we got it where it went and put the cabosil in the seam:

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...RodHolderb.jpg

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...RodHolderc.jpg

And then we glassed it in. I haven't done the ends yet because I'm not sure how I'm going to do them yet. We are trying to just knock out the bulk of the big construction and then go back and hit the details. That's why we have this crazy pace, but finishing everything up is going to be at least a months worth of fairing :)

On a different note, the seat looks HUGE because the border isn't on the boat yet. Once we put the border on the boat the seat will be more normal sized.

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...odHoldersd.jpg

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And then we decided to put the motor box together.

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But, after putting it together, realized it was going to be a little too wide and there wasn't enough area to pass by on the side, so we stopped that and we're going to make it about 4 inches narrower tomorrow and we finished up the front bench. More pics tomorrow if we get something finished!

One step closer in finishing up our super Quepos fishing boat! Today we put the box together. Pretty easy, we have a board in every corner and we screw through the foam into the boards to hold the thing together until the resin/cabosil mix dries, and then we pull the screws out and the boards and grind down the corners and glass the thing! I got a couple of questions after we did the console on how we made round corners. I tried to explain the best I can, but a picture is worth a thousand words! First, since we are dealing with 3/4 inch sheets of foam (after glass) we marked out 3/4 of an inch on both side of the corner.

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...oxFishingA.jpg

Then we use the 4 inch grinder with 36 grit to knock down a little material off the corner, but we finish it by hand with 36 grit cloth backed paper and a small board. Since the top sheet sits on the bottom sheet, you don't make it all the way through.

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...oxFishingc.jpg

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And then when you get the curve you are looking for, you glass the corners with an additional 1708 strip 12 inches wide. Also, don't forget to sand the first 8 inches with 36 grit to rough it up before you glass in the corners, we use the 4.5 inch grinder with 36 grit on EVERYTHING we are going to stick glass to every time.

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...oxFishingd.jpg

I really like what your doing. Do you think the room between the front seating area and the console is a bit tight? Maybe cutting those corners 45 degrees would make it easier to pass through there? I imagine when it's a bit rough it will get tight to pass there.

Great work and this boat is definitely something to be proud of. If I ever make it to Costa Rica I know who I'm fishing with.

It's a little better than it looks, I'd say about 10 inches, but it's tight. I can't cut it because the poles fit in there exactly at that length and we are going to loose a lot of bench when we do the border. I'll go look at it on Monday and maybe we can do something with that corner to get a little more space?

Well, here's the side view with the motor box installed.

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...ngUglyBoxc.jpg

Looks like the box will make a great seat to fight fish from and there is still plenty of room behind it for fishing.

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...ngUglyBoxb.jpg

We still haven't put the last section of floor in, I have to do some welding for the rudder and piston back there, but when that is installed there should be some good fishing space. The box is the perfect height to sit on, and I can sit of the box and still see over the console.

And then the box had a little give in the top, so I went ahead and put some reinforcements on the inside, and we cabosiled all the inside corners and glassed them as well. Should make the top rigid, and keep it from breaking when I have 4 fat guys sitting on top :)

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...ngUglyBoxh.jpg

And then we moved on to the borders, which really haven't had me too excited to do. Center Consoles, benches and motor boxes are just more fun for some reason. So, i don't know why the fiberglass does that, but the border was really distorted after we took it out of the mold. I don't know if you can see too well from the pictures, but check out the edge:

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...ngUglyBoxd.jpg

So what we did is get some 1X2's and just screw them to the edge to make it straighter.

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We are going to do it like it was wood, but with corecell. Going to build a frame out of corecell pieces, and i'm thinking in the back we are going to make the border 5.5 inches wide with a 2.5 inch inside piece. I wanted a bit wider, but the motor box is kind of wide, even after we narrowed it, so I'm worried about having plenty of space to walk by. I spent the last 4 hours today cutting out parts to make the frame for the side borders (are those called gunnels?). I don't know that this is the best picture, but here's what i finished up with:

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...ngUglyBoxg.jpg

That picture doesn't make too much sense, but after i trim the excess glass off and put a few on the boat tomorrow, I'll post a picture and that'll probably show what we are trying to do better than explaining it! Just got in and it's 10pm (we started at 6am), so please forgive any typo's, i'm going to bed!

well then when you make the mold for making more of them you can extend it 2 more feet to allow more room for getting around up there.

or have you given up on the idea of making a mold to create more hulls like this one?

I still have the male mold and I'm going to make at least one more of these, maybe 2 but i want to see the performance numbers before I decide. I spent most of the day walking around on the boat as we are doing the border caps right now, and it's really not that tight and it didn't bother me much. To get more space up there, I'll have to move the motor back a little, I'm going to need to see how the balance is on this one when we splash it and after a couple of weeks of hard fishing I'll know where to make the adjustments on the next one!

From the deck up the outer shell of the hull is call the bulwarks, those are gussets, what your calling decking is the gunwale.


Boat is looking great, has really nice lines

Easily the most tedious job of building my new Quepos Fishing Boat, we put the first part of the cap frames on the side of the boat today. I cut them all out yesterday which was a job, but putting them on and lining them up was quite a task today.

Here's a shot mid day. We put the stick across side to side to line up the angles. They were pre cut before i glassed them, but we still had to adjust them a bit.

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...nnelFramea.jpg

Then here was when i finally finished them:

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And a front view

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and then we glassed them in:

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We left the next piece on the table drying for tomorrow to install, we might get the cap on tomorrow, we'll see?

Looking good.

Not as far as I'd thought we'd get today, that was really tough finding good lines. I cut the pieces out of the foam and they were pretty straight, but after glassing them, recutting them, and then sticking them to the wall, they weren't straight anymore and it took all day to line everything up and get the knee rail stuck on. But, i was happy how everything turned out. In the front, we are doing a different system, and we have some stuff on the table drying to install tomorrow, and then in the middle of the transom, we are going to try to do a cool live well, so i left a space open for that.

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Thanks!

That's the tedious labor intensive part. Looking good Gringo.

it's coming along nicely!

Do you plan on adding any sound dampening material to the inside of the motor box?

Maybe ? I'll probably start it up and listen to it first, i think the foam core should help a little?

This is how we decided to build the front cap. I was going to do the frame think like the rest of the boat, but i don’t know how to calculate out all the lengths with a section that is curved (I guess I could figure it out with google and math, but that wouldn’t have been much fun). And this way we have an anchor locker up front, and a nice solid back to the front bench, and it makes it a little stronger because up front we are going to put the tie offs for the mooring that the boat is going to sit on. Here’s the progression:

We started with just a cap that we made from tracing the outside of the boat, and then tracing our widths from the outside in, and then making the door jamb for the anchor locker. We glass this side (the bottom) and will leave the other side bare so the foam stays flexible until we put it in place.

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...gFrontCapa.jpg

Then in the morning we were trying to line up another piece and Harol commented that he wished we had 10 squares. So i got a piece of plywood and we traced the square and cut out some more.

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...gFrontCapb.jpg

Then with those in place, we wrapped a piece of foam around the inside of the wooden squares. we measured the highest part and made all the foam the height of the highest part, we’ll put it in the boat and then trim it down little by little until we get it to fit

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...gFrontCapc.jpg

And then we glassed the bottom part of the foam to the cap

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...gFrontCapd.jpg

Tomorrow we’ll have that in the boat probably early. While the top was drying, we went ahead and stuck down a couple of the back caps:

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...gFrontCape.jpg

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Today was productive day here in Quepos Costa Rica, but man this border just eats time. I started today off with me finishing up the cap.

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...RawBordera.jpg

The top outside edge is just rough cut, that's why it's a bit not straight, but that's an easy fix Monday.

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...RawBorderb.jpg

While I was cutting foam, Harold was up front installing the front bench backrest.

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Usually it's me Harold and a homeless guy working on this thing, but today the homeless guy was super drunk, so it was just the two of us today. I went ahead and finished cutting all the pieces of the borders for both sides, and the last three pieces are drying on the table, we glassed the bottom sides. While I was doing that, Harold rounded the edges of the border that we have installed and it looks massively better!

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We both died about 4pm today, usually we work a bit later, but we were both out of gas. This Quepos Fishing machine is getting close to getting wet, I am going to spend an hour or so tomorrow sticking down the last cap pieces, so Monday they will be dry, we can sand everything and I think finally we'll get the border glassed. Then next week I have to do some work on the rudder / piston installation, then we are going to install the last bit of floor in the back, build the live well, put in a couple of motor breathers and somewhere in those goals, the clock is going to run out and I'm going to have to wait until October to finish :(

Today stunk. We really hit it hard in the morning and got everything rounded off and even and ready to glass, and then for the first time in months, we got a daytime super storm! Usually here it never rains until 4-5pm at the earliest, but today right at lunch it came down hard. And our roof isn't really in good condition :) Anyways, here's the last pre fiberglass pictures:

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And here's all the fiberglass cut and ready to stick on!

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...shingRaine.jpg

And here's a monsoon picture...Maybe tomorrow?

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Looking good, she has some really nice lines, hopefully you enjoyed your afternoon off.

Not really, I kind of went home upset, I was looking forward to getting everything glassed up. We're going to hit it hard this morning though!

Today was a bit better. We went after the glass first thing in the morning and had everything glassed in by 9am.

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...rsglasseda.jpg

And with the hot morning sun here, that was pretty dry by 10:30 so we went ahead and painted on resin with MicroSpheres to fill in all the bi axial weave.

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And while the guys were doing that, i started on the steering piston / rudder bracket install.

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...rsglassedd.jpg

We started with putting a piece of 1/2 corecell on the transom, then three layers of 1708, then another 1/2 corecell, then 5 layers of 1708. The idea is we are going to take a hole saw and pull off the outside layer of corecell where the bolts go through to hold on the bracket, and then put the foam back in and glass over it from the outside, hiding the bolts. I'm not a very good explainer, but as we progress I'll post photos and it'll make more sense. Here's the finished transom ready for the bracket:

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...rsglassedi.jpg

And then i broke out my Ghetto welding skills and started welding some 2 inch stainless that was in the shop to make it 4 inch and started building the bracket!

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...rsglassedg.jpg

I'll post some more pictures tomorrow, this looks like it will be our last week of intense work, i will probably do stuff by myself, but the pace is about to slow down so i don't burn much materials. Got two days left, I have to bring a friend to Panama on Thursday so not much time to get this thing together!

Wow, today kicked my butt. I'm not really a welder, but I've always had a welding machine and I like making metal puddles, but today was a lot of welding! In order to put the back section of floor in, i had to build the bracket that holds the rudder on one side and the piston on the other. And then something I started doing a couple of boat back is I also weld a bottom part onto the bracket that has two screws through the hull and where the zinc goes. That way the steering piston and rudder are hard wired to the zinc and last longer. Here's what we started with, this was 2 inches wide and yesterday I welded the pieces together to make them 4 inches wide:

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...ingruddera.jpg

Then we drilled alot of holes, in the metal and the hull. I didn't put them in a straight line as I thought this would be stronger. The two ends are in the middle so they sit good, but the middle I staggered.

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...ingrudderb.jpg

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...ingrudderc.jpg

Here a picture of when we only had two screws mounted and we were drilling the others. I always try to drill everything in place and weld it assembled. We then went with a hole saw on the outside to take off the first layer of glass and foam to hide the nuts.

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...ingrudderd.jpg

And then we actually took our time and lined up carefully the top rudder support and I welded it in place.

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...ingruddere.jpg

Then i added the bottom part where the zinc will go, welded all the screws in place and took everything off to finish up the welds. I tacked it in place, but I don't want to cook my corecell, so we had to weld it outside the boat. While I was tacking everything (with it touching the hull), somebody was spraying the hull with water, we made lots of steam.

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...ingrudderf.jpg

Since I'm going to Panama tomorrow and Harold can't weld, we put in a late day. I'll post daytime pictures when i get back, but in the meantime here's some finished pictures taken with a flash

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...ingrudderg.jpg

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We mounted it in with really thick resin and cabosil behind it to really give it a good base, it fit pretty flush, but the putty will make it stronger. And we grinded the back of the stainless with 36 grit and cleaned it a bunch with paint thinner to make sure it got a good bond. And then we filled the outside holes with resin and cabosil also, to hide the bolts!

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...ingrudderh.jpg

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...ingrudderj.jpg

And now I'm home and going to bed! No pictures tomorrow as I'm out of country, but we'll post some more up here Friday!

you dont have to be a good welder, you just have to be a good grinder;)

Yep, that's the first rule of ghetto welding, grind of the bead and nobody will know!

I was a welders helper for a while... I know the rule all to well lol

That doesnt look like a bad welding job to me but whatcdo I know.

Lots of work, but not a lot of pictures. We got the last section of floor in, and then built the whole bottom part of the live well, rounded the edges of the live well and then glassed it in thick to the transom. We put 3 layers on each of the 4 corners where it ties into the back so that it will support the transom.

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...llFishinga.jpg

We started fitting the deck hatches, they still lack some work, but at least we have them cut out and stuck together. They are 1 inch thick, so we had to stick two 1/2 corecell layers together to make each hatch.

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...llFishingd.jpg

Then we cut the hole between the motor box and the bathroom where the engine will draw fresh clean air. That also helps keep the bathroom air from getting smoky, the engine will cycle the air in there often. We are making a 4 inch fiberglass tube right now and it's drying, but the idea is to connect a hose from the intake turbo to the wall, not just leave a hole there, tomorrow we should have the intake hose connection installed. In the bathroom, we are making a box with holes in it where the motor will suck air from.

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...llFishingc.jpg

And then we started building the fresh air intakes on the side of the hull, they are boxes and then I'll put a blower on one side of the motor to pump air out the side.

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...llFishingb.jpg

And I think I'm going to try to do one more week of work. In one more week, I could have everything glass built and only have fairing left, and probably knock some of that out as well. And I'll be closer!

When you watch something like this it helps you to appreciate why boats cost so much.

Yep, it's pretty nuts the amount of time these things steal while you build them. But it beats watching TV

Didn't bring the camera yesterday so i had to run out there today to get the shots! We started by putting in the two motor box breathers, those are the boxes on either side of where the motor goes. They also reinforced the sides which wobbled a bit.

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...esFishinga.jpg

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...esFishingc.jpg

And then i took a hole saw and cut two holes and connected them with a jigsaw to make the outside part where it will get air and blow out (One side in one side out)

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...esFishingb.jpg

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...esFishingd.jpg

We built the floor and the top of the livewell, didn't get a chance to fiberglass the top of the livewell on because we ran out of resin, but the floor is done, we also made the inside corners more round with a thin laminate to keep the amount of corners down so the fish live longer. We are going to paint the inside black as well, i think that helps the bait live longer. We decided to piece together some pieces of foam instead of cutting a whole sheet, and the underside of the top is already glassed.

http://www.QueposFishAdventure.com/Q...esFishinge.jpg

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And then we built the air intake for the motor itself. The other intakes are for the fresh air inside the box, but this is the box the motor will actually get the running air from. We are going to put holes in the front, side and bottom so that it can't get a bag stuck to it or anything like that.

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Tomorrow, we are going to keep going and finish up the live well and then we are going to using the micro-spheres and resin and try to fair out the boat a bit this week.

Not too much to show, we are mostly sanding and fairing. We did manage to get the Livewell glassed in:

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And a funny picture. We buy used clothes and get this big bag for 2 bucks, and we wear the clothes once and then throw them out as they are full of glass. Today Harold got a pink Kimono :)

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Have him tell everyone that's his Caitlyn Jenner Halloween Costume.