My New Project.
Well now that my initial VA comp has been approved and we are no longer counting on every penny to pay bills, My wife has decided that I need a hobby to occupy my time while waiting on SSDI and my VA...
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You have ambition, my friend. That's not something I would attempt because I didn't inheirit my father's craftsman-like skills. I love the lines of drift boats, and a beautifully finished wooden one...
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Just don't ask me to help build your boat, for everything I ever made turned out to be a ashtray.
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I have never built a drift boat but had a 1960 26foot Chriscraft and restored most of it before disabilities got to bad to work on it. There is a product called gluv-it that comes in two parts to add...
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I am going to use plascore for the bottom and sides with kevlar and epoxy, which will be painted and then do wood benches and dry storage areas. The bottom will also be covered with Linex which is a...
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Good luck on building a drift boat. As for me I can not even blow up a inner tube right.
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Its going very slow. I have my wood all scarfed together. (from what I can determin scarfing is what pro builders call gluing there wood together) I have the paterns all marked on the wood and Im...
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Hey, don't feel bad. I bought my Porta-Bote in August and, just yesterday, have it ready to put in the water. I found it too physically taxing to fold/unnfold the thing--and then too heavy, so I spent...
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When I was in the AF I was a woodworking & hobby instructer, one day a SGT came in and said he wanted to build a 30ft. cabin cruser, we finished it in about 3 months, and it floated!! Loved that...
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