gray duck

A Beauty!

Regarding observation that the CS boats did better than the SPs - It reminded me of what Ren Tolman said about his boats - "Build a Better Boat than you can buy!"?

Great photo!

Having the graphite powder in epoxy gives great UV protection and I think provides a smooth low friction surface. I have a Devlin Cackler I built in 99 and the bottom looks almost as good as when launched. Used about once a week since beginning. And I have a pirogue stored upside down and the bow gets sun maybe 6 hours a day and looks fine.

Yes. You DO NOT want this boat to be heavy. All of us were first time builders and early boats tend to be overbuilt and overweight.

Carlins look great! I'm confused with your previous post with what appears to be a drain going from the mast (or mast step maybe) through the hull. ??? Never seen this before. My $0.02: When people say a mast step needs to be drained, usually it just means into the bilge to prevent water sitting in the "wooden bowl" that the bottom of the mast is in.

Boat looks amazing! Regarding screws in epoxy - I have heard and seen that SS screws that are NOT exposed to air (ie in epoxy) will rust.

I like the shopsmith brand. One thing to possibly watch out for that I have read about and may have experienced is with sandpaper that touts no clogging. Apparently the stuff/chemical on the non-clogging sandpaper can come off and if it is on your boat surface it might affect your next layer of epoxy - so washing after sanding seems good practice as in getting rid of amine blush.

I always keep the painter = to the boat length to prevent prop issues

Brightsides +1

She looks beautiful! Any plans for rail, toerail etc?

Showpiece in development! Looks very nice!

someone with more experience than me will likely be by soon but I think using 45 deg connectors is better for running cables/wires etc

any more pics for those ignorant of how these work? thanks

thanks for the replies - seems to make more sense to me to put rope on top of the fiberglass ,cuz it is sacrificial