This is my Glen-L Super Spartan that I built. It took 3.5 months to make with around 300 hours to build and paint. The paint I used was Pettit Topcoat Easypoxy. The painting took a great deal of time considering it was all done with a roller. The inside was painted by spraying. It has […]
THINK BEFORE YOU FIBERGLASS You are ready to apply the fiberglass covering to the boat you are building. All of the screw holes and imperfections have been filled and sanded smooth. You even took great care to minimize sanding over the Douglas-fir plywood surface as you knew that would accentuate the grain and cause […]
Article Courtesy of Newfound Woodworks Inc. : One way to make your boat unique is to add some graphics. These aren’t ‘decals’ as such but actually anything you can print on rice paper. Rice paper is very thin, like tissue paper. You can get it at an art supply […]
This is a picture of my garage before I got started. I drew the outline of each of the components of the frames on the 3/4 marine ply and cut them out. The frames, stem, transom and keel in place. Rear view with temporary braces to hold everything straight and level. Notch for chine […]