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Years ago in the cold Canadian winter of 1975 a young 12 year old boy labored through the cold of his parents garage to build his first race boat. The summer of 1975 saw the launch of the “River Rat”. An 8 foot Super Spartan hydro-plane with a 9.9 Chrysler outboard. That rat flew. For […]
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 […]
To read the previous posts in this series, click the links below: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Saturday – June 16, 2012 I finally finished the painting on the Super Spartan and waxed it all up today and set it on the […]
To read the previous posts in this series, click the links below: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Tuesday, February 21, 2012 This week I’ve been working on the dash and cowl. I laminated some Okoume to the DF dash that came in the frame […]
To read the previous posts in this series, click the links below: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Wednesday, February 15, 2012 Still trying to figure out how to regift my Zip (see Forum for details), but in the meantime I have installed the aft deck sections, […]
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