Echo Valley

Moving along nicely.  You'll be in the water soon.

One of the things I quickly learned when I started looking  around for lumber to build my SOF & wood stripper was that tracking down who carried different species of wood took some time.  Forget the big box stores for western red cedar, redwood or BB.  Local lumber yards around my area (Louisville Metro) carried WRC & redwood as well as marine ply which I was ready to use until I talked to a friend of a friend who worked in veneer and told me to check out one of their suppliers,  Hood Distribution. Sure enough, they had 1/2"x  5x5  BB for $35 a sheet.  Took a few weeks to find it, but with due diligence it can be found.  Hood Dist. is located mostly in the southeast.  I would think in other parts of the country there would be similar companies.  Finding suppliers for this & that is just part of the building process.  

If you decide to construct your own float bags out of vinyl, check your local fabric store, but for the HH-66 vinyl cement I could only find that online.

Happy Building.

I've only built one SOF so far, used polyester and I certainly like how it's turned out.  So yeah, I'd still go for polyester even with the price increase, besides I'm probably the slowest builder around so I'd have plenty of time to save up my dollars.  

Willis approves as well.

Thanks all for the kind words.  My wife chose the red & black paint combo.  I'm more of a drab green, drab grey, drab whatever kind of guy, but she suggested something brighter.  Still have some details to take care of in the coming weeks before it hits the water but there will be pictures. 

Hopefully, by mid summer I'll have my Redfish Spring Run wood stripper finally completed.  It's been shrink wrapped in the basement since November waiting for the weather to be consistently warm so that I can glass it up etc. That's why I wanted to go ahead and build a SOF, so that come summer we could have two on the water. 

From frame on grass to skin on frame, the transformation continues.