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Now that's a mighty fine job. Enjoy and love the scenery too..!!!!!!

Say it ain't so friend, EPOXY??????? and real wood????? :shock: :lol: :lol: :twisted: 8) Just peeking in and over you guys shoulders to see the latest projects,,,,

Thats not entirely correct. An entire book could be written and has been written when dealing with fiberglass iwhen it pertains to structual applications. This must have numerous qualifiers. Finish cloth with weakened areas such as the turns of a bilge without fillets or radius outside corners...

Well if you get right down to the nuts and bolts of most discussions pertaining to epoxy versus caulking, a numbers crunching person does not really save on small boats usingmost quality caulks, even though convenience does play a small role in the two. I am still a big fan of thinking down the...

I don't use an ounce of epoxy or thickened epoxy on any and all boats that I do not want to use fiberglass on, especially at the chines where chine battens are used. Proper boat building fits and materials that incorporate bronze nails or bronze screw fastener preferably can get quality flex...

Socks and crocs, yep what a croc. :wink: :wink: You need to get up to speed since you live in Florida, sandles. For some reason after reading the original post, a mental image came to mind. :lol: :lol: :lol:

If you think a CD will cause you harm in a good way of course, do not visit his shop. Thats all that I will have to say. :oops: :wink:

LOL! Experimenting is the very fondation in which boat building began and has evolved over time. Your concerns and observation is a bit misguided as I am probably one of the few left in the obsession of boats that gets up every single day and experiements with all things wood. If you listen to...

I have never understood why someone would subject their life and limb and all the work thats involved in these project to building a paper mache boat. If you want the boat to last a wee bit of a time and hopefully passing it along to another family member or even give it away, don't you want not...

There is a cure for this you know. Configure sheet plywood to conform to the boat over the top so the boat does double duty as a work bench. You never have enough flat areas in the shop you know. This keeps the boat cleaner and when you get ready to use the boat just tip the sheets over which...

If a person is sensitive to epoxy or do not wish to use it but want to build a strip boat of any shape, the Titebond products are out there along with the PL products too. In most cases unless its thin strips that cannot be fastened with edge grain fasteners because of the lack of thickness...

Go back to your original post. If anything is stupid, it was that you were not specific in what you were attempting to ask. You specifically ask only about the longivity of a particular building method, end of story. What you are now attempting to convey is that you want something that can...

Oh I have boated in the Port Arthur-Sabine area in particular and understand the state has marshes, redfish and flounder in particular. But i go back to the notion that no matter the building method which was in the original post will give a small portable boat any extention in its life if you...

My seven year boat that is shown is just one boat in a long line of boats that have stayed in the water exposed and out of the water sitting on a trailer with questionable covers at best, such as the blue tarps that rarely hold all water out f they are six months old or more. And yes we boat...

What you are looking at is hardware paint and Minwax big box store varnish over solid mahogany veneers. The boat is scantly framed using madrone mahogany, IIRC and the entire boat was also primed with Kiltz interior oil base primer [ stuff used for stain blocking for water leaks in ceilings in...

Well any and all materials in the form of wood that we build boats with have been cut down and looses it life at that point. So its a matter of time before the wood finally gives up the ghost. We slow or retard the death by coating the wood and dealing with dings as they happen. We also know...

Sorry that I responded, but each and everyone of us sometimes interprete questions and view any and all infrances differently. If you look at the original comment and even question: and then the follow up infrance which was that even with his boats being built using marine plywood they only...

By all means carry on, I am just an idle time lurker that probably knows just enough to be dangerous on the water. Edited to add that my point on the old boats was that we have boats still plowing the waters edge thats over 100 years old now. So the question that I originally replied to dealt...

Your question was or I took it as does chine logs make a boat last longer. What did I miss? Chine logs as a working component does not make a boat last longer than glass tape and fillets or vice versa. Each boat is subjected to its own set of circumstances Boats built without a single piece of...

I am not Beekeeper but see this discussion with the premise that glass makes a boat last longer. The longivity of any and all boats are dependant on three main factors. The type of materials while a big factor does not always mean that the boat will last longer. The workmanship working in tune...