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  1. Both the 24 and the 26 involves the same steps, just a few more pieces of wood and will handle the same. We never seem to have enough room inside, the more we use one. But after going back and forth between the two sizes, the difference for me would be a bit more room for a head and shower in the 26 if you create a decent layout inside the cabin with about the same creature comforts for cruising and overnighting. Now to speak about Ken and esteem builder of the Bluejacket, both are hard to live up to in their standards of excellence, creation and execution of boat building skills. I haven't updated my thread since I have been in the stage of laminating the sides, which is like building two boats in one with the cold molding process. So if you go this route be prepared to have plenty of patience as you see the boat take shape,,,,,,,,slowly. That's my recommendation to anyone that's never bit off a project with shape before. And I recommend going with a slower harder for your larger glue ups. And be patient and let things dry enough before moving along to your next step if its related to your last step. Wet out properly all mating parts.
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  2. Thank you for the compliment Ken. I did put a bow thruster in the Bluejacket, a Lewmar 140. I am a klutz maneuvering a boat around and the Bluejacket with little keel and high sides doesn't help that. I had also couple of trolling motors as stern thruster. I am changing those to just propel the boat forward and back. No steering on the trolling motors. The bow thruster can take care of that. By putting both the trolling motors and bow thruster on a remote control it can help loading it on a trailer alone. An electric winch on the trailer is also helpful. Also docking in my regular boat slip was difficult, Wind and cross current. And not to forget a very big expensive shiny boat in the slip next to me. By the time I backed in and could get a line fastened the boat is sideways in the slip. I hope by having the thruster on a remote I can keep it under control a little better. Egbert
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  3. I apologize for the recent downtime. The forum software people pushed an update that failed, and it took several days to fix. They have re-issued the update so I was finally able to finish the task. They are pushing everyone to their "cloud solution" at a much higher cost, which I am resisting. I may have to change software, but I want to avoid that; it's a painful, time consuming process that takes days to migrate all the posts, images, etc. Anyway, we're back. I will wait at least a week before applying any non-emergency updates from now on.
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