First water for the skiff.

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Took the beast I built down to a local lake. Yea, it floats!!! Upright, level, just sits on top of the water with no one in it, drops about one inch with my large body aboard... 8) .

Couple of screw holes I forgot to fill caused some minor leaking but VERY little.

Made oar locks (Thanks for the great idea Swimmer!!!!!) Bad design on my part, had the grain horizontal on one lock so of course it broke, duh.

The other lock was cut on about a 45 degree angle so that held just fine.

Stable enough to stand up in and rock back and forth.

Didn't get the sails made yet so it was strickly a paddle boat. speaking of paddles (read oars) made a couple of 8 foot monsters (wanted to make sure I had plenty of room to get over the lee board) ripped a 2x6 into a couple of 2x2, rounded the edges just a tad, and screwed some plywood blades on. Yup, 10 minute oars, worked like 'um too. Might have been just a little long, like a foot to a foot and a half :roll:

They really made that boat move though :twisted:

Over all I'm so happy with the performance that I'm thinking of actually naming the little skiff...Odds-n-Ends.

My son-in-law is supposed to e-mail me the pictures I took of the boat before we left to the lake so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I may actually be able to post something soon