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Delta Q Houseboat

On December 26, 2013, in Builder Blogs, Glen-L Styles, Outboard Powered, by Runagroundsue
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Matt FitzGibbon’s “MiniMaxed” Story

On August 29, 2013, in Builder Blogs, Outboard Powered, by John B
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Editors Note: The following letter is printed with permission of the author See Matt’s MiniMaxed Photo Gallery here I started this project as a “Father-children” project but found my kids didn’t have as much interest as I had hoped they would. However, I persevered on and the more it took shape the more interested they […]

Tom Saccio’s Flats Flyer

On July 29, 2013, in Builder Blogs, Glen-L Styles, Outboard Powered, Plywood Construction, by Tom Saccio
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I’ve just started Building my Flat’s Flyer. These are the first pictures. In the background is my Seaplane which I also built. The brown paper has the drawings for Frame number 3.

First Steps in Building Your Boat: Setting up – The foundation for building a boat

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  A boat, unlike a house or garage, does not have flat areas such as a level foundation with vertical uprights (studs).  A boat is curved from most any direction you view it so an artificial foundation must be created. We’ve developed a method of using a “building form” to substitute for the “foundation” in the analogy […]

First step, building the boat mold

On February 25, 2013, in Glen-L Styles, Outboard Powered, Plywood Construction, by Joe Carnevale
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The building frame is very important. Any imperfection in the building frame will also show up in the boat. I used a string line on the frame to make sure the frame was totally straight.