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A FAMILY built boat! This is not a show boat, it is a FAMILY boat! This boat was built in the worst of conditions by an inexperienced family. If WE can build a boat, you can build a boat. It was the 2nd boat we have built, the first only being ten...
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The Center for Wooden Boat’s boat show is next weekend. It is a slightly hazy Sunday morning, June 24 as I write this. It has been an interesting few weeks. I have worked on the boat a great deal. My wife has been wonderfully understanding and has taken on the lion’s share of family...
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Escargot Diary June 12th, 2001 And now the hard part. The boat works, pretty well actually. All the big work of frames, adding sides, and the roof and such are done. Even much of the outside is painted. Cleats are trimmed down with dowels through them. Will get pictures as soon as it...
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Escargot Builders log April 13th I have been working on the boat. Really! The trailer showed up…. but I am going to have to modify it to meet my needs. Basically the guy at EZ Loader was wrong about what would work. This boat will need far more support than what the four...
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Escargot Builders log January 3rd Several very nice emails about my project. Thank you very much. I cut another window out right next to the one in picture above. Also started working on framing around the first one. Working our pretty well. Pictures later. Also got well along on the forward...
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Escargot Builders log July 31 Ok.. worked hard this weekend. Bought about one hundred dollars worth of wood and glue and screws. Sigh. Oh well. Installed some stiffeners for the back deck and glassed the rear compartment floor. Installed almost all of the framing for the forward berth… worked out fine! Installed forward...
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Escargot Builders log May 16th…. It has been so long. In the last couple of months my aging mother has had three operations, I have had a cold, and my kids have had birthdays. It has also been really wet. To make this story a little shorter, I have not been able to...
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Escargot Builders log April 3, 2000 – Waiting for wood delivery for weekend. April 8, 2000 – I can’t believe how bad wood has gotten. Unbelievable. The AA grade Marine plywood the sent me is filled with voids and plugs and putty. One sheet has 12 fills. I complained and they said...
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Escargot Builders Log March 27, 2000 A trip to the store to get more 1/4 inch ply. I am using what my lumber yard calls Maranti. Seems to be very good wood with few voids. Price is about $16 a sheet. I need maybe two more to finish off the three remaining frames. I...
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Excargot Builders log Partial List of Money Spent: 4 – 1/4″ Maranti ply – $16.88 each – total = $67.52 Framing lumber – most 2×3 and 2×2′s – c. $83 5 tubes of DAP 4000 Glue – $2.08 each – total = $10.40 420 one inch screws - $18 Epoxy resin one gallon...
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