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Ha ha. Yeah if was paid to do this for a living I would be a happy camper. This is the nice part of boat building, all the sanding and fibreglassing is another story.

The last pic is looking up into the stern. Its a portifino style with a walk trough door. It differs from the plan alot so going to add alot of timber and glass to make sure nothing bad happens. Alot of leverage on this part of boat. Planning on powering it with 115 either Etec or Yam 4 stroke which weigh 200 kg plus. The manufacturers are a little mis- leading with there quoted weights. It doesnt include oil,coolent,battery, cables or even prop. So theres always a bit more bouncing around back there than I first thought.

some more pics of chines and stringers, pretty slow process as each one has to have the edges routered to a radius to aid fibre glassing. Considering hot coating the stringers with resin then sheathing the inside of the boat with say a layer of 4mm ply and glassing that instead so you have a nice clean looking interior.Not sure. I know it would add weight. I ended up making the stringers all 25 mm wide instead of 25 x 19 like Graham (sorry for mis-spelling name in previous post) called for. Just in case this is done. If anyone out there has any comments or suggestions out there they would be greatly appreciated.

Will try my best, as you can see the shed/carport is not much bigger than boat so its impossible to get pics from the side. Only bow and stern. Frames and stringers are set up and glued. Next task is to set the chines in. Grayham has designed quite an interesting detail here. Never seen anything like it before on such a big boat, but looks simple enough and will certainly make things quick.

As you can see space is pretty tight. Before I could start the boat I had to sell my other boat, concrete the drive, build a carport and mill up some massive hart kauri beams I salvaged from a villa. (Kauri is a nz native timber, excellent for boat building. strong, lite, beautiful to work and rot resistant.) The stern of the boat has been modified to a portifino style to aid exiting the water after diving. I might also add a cabin, the dury is still out on that one. centre consols are fab over summer. not so flash during the winte. I myself not to worried about getting wet, its my better half opting for cabin, toilet....... you get my drift.

Heres a couple of pics of build here in Auckland nz.