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  1. The same thing happened to my flyfisher. I had one crack as I was tightening up the wires. I pulled it apart, and added a patch of glass both sides as noted above on all 4 cuts about 3" square and it faired out just fine.
  2. You can order the CD of pictures from B&B. I did, and there are a lot of close ups and quite a few construction pics. If you get the Ocracoke 20 pics at the same time (which I did) I think that would give you a good idea of what the project entails as I believe the construction is similar. If I'm wrong, someone please correct me.
  3. Nice job, I built Flyfisher a couple of years ago, but gave it more of a working finish as I use it for fishing and bouncing around local rivers and small lakes/ponds. Even though I used a matt paint (dull dead grass - pettit paints) the lines still show up nicely i think.
  4. Where is the messabout going to take place please? Will the ECO-18, Marissa, be there?
  5. Bump - any more pics or a line drawing please? Please?
  6. Graham, Do you have any timeline on when you might plan to have a kit available by please? Would it be possible to see a profile drawing of the design please? you mention the narrow area to port of the trunk will be decked over. How long will it be? Could it be a fishing rod storage area if some rod tubes were insert into the forward bulkead aka typical bassboat style? Just wondering. what you have shown so far looks great. Thanks Rich.
  7. Joe, I weigh about 220 and my daughter in the picture about 33 lbs. I do not think the weight will be an issue for you, however, depending upon how tall your daughter is, and where she sits, legroom might be a bit tight. I had my daughter sitting forward of the cross member, and she was quite comfortable, but she's only 3. She could have sat behind the cross member on a folding chair (I use folding stadium seats I got at a garage sale for 50 cents each) and had tons of room facing forward. Stability was just fine I thought, I haven't tried standing yet though. As noted by Gordy above, I agree that the next size up would be more comfortable for two. It only takes 2 sheets of 4mm plywood, but there are a couple of tricky parts as with standard sized sheets you have to add little corners from the scrap to get to the right size for the butterfly shape. Adds a day depending on how fast your resin sets (about an hour's cutting and fitting work), but not too hard. I found bending the sides into shape tricky, and did not screw a piece of plywood on as suggested by the designer, so I heard a loud crack and ended up with a split I had to fix. I then put a small square of glass each side of the remaining undamaged 3 cuts and had no problem. That really was a problem to fix the split. I would definitely reinforce that joint as described if I did another build. The design is really economical on plywood and has nice lines, and paddles great. I estimate it took me around 50 hours labor time to do, plus waiting for resin to set, but my paint finish was more utility than cabinet grade. I did it in around 3 months very part time. Rich
  8. Jim, The flyfisher is quite manoeuvrable. As Gordy mentioned, it carries its way very well to, just keeps going and going. You have to back paddle to stop it. It's pretty light - I didn't glass the bottom as I mainly lake fish with occasional river use (Flint River in Georgia). I'll weigh it and post the actual weight for reference. However, if I was going to do a lot of rocky river or stump paddling I'd probably add a layer of 6oz cloth or polyester to it for abrasion resistance.
  9. Hello everyone. I've been reading posts for a while here and thought I would post a few pictures of my Flyfisher that I finished a couple of months ago. It was a reasonably easy build except I had a bad crack in the ply when I forced it up into the bow curve. I put a glass patch over all four bow cuts then and moved on. It paddles nicely and carries me and my daughter no problem on a local reservoir here in Senoia, Georgia. Cheers Rich.
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