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Thanks! I will get to the drive system stuff soon. There WILL be a rainy day in northern Florida soon. I DO like writing how-to stuff, as you can see on all the other stuff on http://ArduinoInfo.Info Had a nice run yesterday across Indian Pass to St. Vincent Island. I never had a boat before...

Hi Pete, We MIGHT be going back up near Tallahassee in 7-10 days. We have a friend at the Making Awesome makerspace there and we might be dropping off a couple of our Arduino/Electronics kits. Maybe send me an email: [email protected]

Hi Everyone, Well the Jon Boat with the Problematic Plywood is on the water. Not painted yet! Real Soon Now. Epoxy needs UV protection... See: https://arduinoinfo.mywikis.net/wiki/Boat_Building_Jon_Boat#THE_ACTUAL_BOAT_ON_THE_WATER That page has build details but I need to edit/add last...

Unfortunately we will be pulling a 20 foot camper behind the tahoe with the kayak on the tahoe roof. Worked well last year VT to FL and back. Hmmm.. Way Back we first carried the Kayak on the roof of the camper. Hard to put it up there. But COULD do that and put the JonBoat on the Tahoe...

Hi @beekeeper.. Thanks.; Yes, I thought about it, but I already have it ready to put all the parts together.. I'll do some hard testing on it from time to time. IF I can keep the wood from getting wet, it may survive. It won't be kept in the water... And I will probably have the time to build...

THANKS for the ideas here @beekeeper ! I got to figure how to load / carry both a light 12 foot JonBoat and my 14 foot 2-person Kayak on the top of my Tahoe. I have a very sturdy flat carrier built on top now with many anchors into the metal roof, so I have lots to connect to. I'd LIKE to...

@oldsparkey : OLD?? You call yourself OLD?? (Seriously??) I was born before World War Two STARTED for the USA... :) SEE UPDATE ABOVE ON BOILING THE SANDE PLYWOOD :-(

UPDATE: Not Good Boiling! Hi, Since it was cheap. probably thin! I'll go measure it... OK: the 1/4" has veneer of 1.25mm or .05 inch the 3/4 is thinner: .75mm or .03 inch So, pretty thin but not very different to other hardwood plywood I've used... Here's the 3/4 NEXT: I'll BOIL...

Hi, RE: water resistant glue? HD Does not answer that in any of their online information. What do we have to go on? - The Sande companies and their corporate companies say Sande is "Often selected for Marine Plywood". No glue comment there, but implied waterproof.. - Several sources I found...

I'll have a lot of actual build photos pretty soon.. I'll put them on my public Wiki...

Hi Everyone, Just cut the UncleJonBoat seat parts from 3/4" "Sande" plywood.. Not a single void! We'll see how it holds up next few years. I will put out some scrap pieces in the weather with different treatments later... (Cut with my 35 years old Sears "Plytooth" blade.. Similar HERE -- No...

Bad News, Good News: Amazon buy of West 105b (gallon size) epoxy including 205fast hardener and pumps $160 HERE Package came in with good sized hole in it, and well bent can of 105, with a slight leak. NO packing, just cans in a cardboard box. I complained to Amazon, had good discussion. They...

OMG, you channel my late father, Fred King, who lived on puns. He lived to 101 (HOPE that's hereditary) . I occasionally also find it difficult to resist one... OH: Off Topic?? But... humans are intrinsically off-topic...

Jack! At (Oh, how much I used to Hate That Phrase!) "Our Age" .. we have no actual requirement to be still Able To Count.. That's what Excel is for.. MANY years ago (um, say 1973) I discovered computers at SUNY. I was trying to design Active Filters for broadcasting. LOTsa math. One small...

Love knots and the feel of the line in your hand BEFORE you make it into a knot. What I tell my (many) grandchildren to start is, "You only really NEED two knots" The Bowline and the Clove Hitch (AKA Two Half Hitches). Tie any two lines of ANY size together? Make interlocking Bowlines. Need...

Hi Jack and thanks for the welcome! After all the crazyness and unhappiness in so many kinds of media it's a relief to just get with people who Do Stuff. Like: Figure Stuff Out TRY stuff out Learn from failures, still smiling! Make stuff work Help other people to Make Stuff Work That's...

Hi Everyone, I've used many different kinds of plywood. Now I'm building a UncleJohn JonBoat. http://unclejohns.com/jonboat/ 12 feet long (Fits in my heated basement shop in the snow in Vermont)... So Uncle shows 1/4 plywood with at least fiberglass/epoxy joints. Hmm.... I built a 20...

Building a JonBoat

Hi Everyone, I had captured much of what Dave Carnell had figured out over the years, including Plywood Butt Joints as referenced earlier here. Dave was an amazing guy, a DuPont chemist who built many boats and did extensive experiments with wood, fiberglass and epoxy. I enjoyed talking with...