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Check out Riva Ridge! A Glen-L Squirt

On March 30, 2012, in Fiberglass Construction, Outboard Powered, Plywood Construction, Why Build Your Own Boat?, by kymarlee
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I just completed “Riva Ridge” the last week of March.  What a fun project!  I started New Years Day and spent over 150 hours on the project over the past 3 months. I spent many evenings on the Glen.L forum checking out photos of previous Squirt builds and gleaning all the information I could about […]

Super Spartan Build by Roberta Part 6

On February 10, 2012, in News From Gayle, Outboard Powered, by Gayle Brantuk
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To read the previous posts in this series, click the links below: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 December 21, 2011 Yesterday I planed all the coamings, deck battens, and nontrip chines to half inch. They were all cut from 3/4″ stock (couldn’t get 8″ boards 1/2″ thick) so I had […]

Building a boat (Zip) – in retrospect – and other loose items

On August 25, 2011, in Glen-L Styles, Outboard Powered, by Whistler
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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 […]