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If you’ve been following our blog, you most likely watched the interview of Ray Macke who built the True Grit which is a 25 foot Sportfish Utility Cruiser extended to 27′. If you missed it, you can watch it here.
Ray and his wife have logged about 60 hours on their boat and spent 9 nights aboard and are truly enjoying their boat! We look forward to seeing Ray and Vicky and their True Grit at the Gathering this weekend in Tennessee. If you want to see some Glen-L boats in person, be sure and join us–info is on our website.
The beautiful thing about building your own boat is that you can tweak it as you need. Ray has made some recent changes and detailed them in the fascinating and entertaining article below…
So, while I’m waiting for the review of my first post here is another post. I spent about 6 hours on the project today. Total hours to date 264. Total cost including the vinyl I ordered for the seats $2972.35.
After completing my Li’l Squirt jet project a local marina owner offered me a place to build boats to sell to local people.. SO… with his suggestion that the Stiletto was “sexier” than the Zip or Malahini, I started on the new project on June 23rd. Today I ordered the vinyl for the seats, put a […]
Headroom in the cabin of a boat is all important to many. Granted, having a generous space above your head when you’re inside is great, but let’s be sensible. Full headroom on a boat under 20’ is mostly impractical. Yes, there are a few exceptions. A houseboat and some displacement hulls with deep bilges may […]
The following piece of reading was originally posted in the “small outboards” section in the forum. I’ve done some editing and some additions during the process of publishing it in this ‘blog’. Additions and edits are in italic. Why are people building their own boats? If you build a no-frills 14-16-18 footer with an outboard […]
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