Skinny perow coming ( Brazos Cruiser SS)

[tx river rat]

Re: Skinny perow coming

Got the decks rough cut to shape pulled off sanded and the back side glassed

Put a second coat on the bottom she will be ready for the sanding tomorrow and put extra wear strips on the bow and stern.

Should get an ideal how she will look tomorrow
Ron

 

[tx river rat]

Re: Skinny perow coming

Got the decks glued down and all my filet ran . sanded them to shape

Tomorrow finish sanding and putting cloth on the decks.
Ron

 

[tx river rat]

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Between the rain and putting new wood floors in a house I let this slide for a few day,back on track now.

Got the decks sanded and glass put on them

Also glued on the outside rail

Got the cockpit sort of figured out now. I think I am going to wait on the seat arrangement until I have paddled her
Ron

 

[tx river rat]

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Got the last fill coat of epoxy on today.

I know the sides needed stifing so there are two strips inside the hul and one 1 1/2 ceders strip outside, the I took a piece of pine turned the gran at a right angle to the other strips for strength and also to carry the line of the light top.

It will darken a little when it get the epoxy on it.
Ron

 

[tx river rat]

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She will start to slick up after tomorrow.
I got the side strips sanded and a coat of epoxy on them today, touched up some spots in the epoxy ,sanding starts tomorrow.
Ron

 

[tx river rat]

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Got a lot of first done today, first coat of epoxy and graphite on the bottom

Installed the last wood on her ,the end caps at the back of the decks

got the first coat of spar varnish on the decks

She is slowly coming along.
Ron

 

[ZipSnipe]

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Looks great!! Why didn't ya make a storage compartment out of the front? If ya have a Marine store in ur town the storage doors are only a couple of bucks?

 

[tx river rat]

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Zip
I am not finished ,stay tuned.
Ron

 

[tx river rat]

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This is the slow part, sanding and getting the finish right.
She is getting there .

Trying to make up my mind if I want to go paddle her now are wait till I get finished with the hatches
Ron

 

[jdupre']

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Shaping up real nice. I'm REAL curious about the performance of this one. Could be a sleeper.

Joey

 

[tx river rat]

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This one is probably going to start some controversy to. I was talking to the guy that designed this one day. we were around a bunch of boats and several perows, we walked up to one that had a pretty good flair to the sides and he ask the guy ,I bet that boat feels really tippy and I bet it is a roller coaster ride in waves hitting it from the side. I understand the flaired sides throwing a boat around from waves because of the wave hitting and lifting them, most good rough water yaks have pretty flat sides ,so that made sense. Oh the guy answered yes to both questions. To me it seems like the flair would add initial stability.
We anyway I had to know so I told him to design me a stable fast perow that would handle side waves pretty well and this is it.
In a couple days we will find out.
Ron

 

[catfish]

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looking good ron

 

[Kayak Jack]

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My first kayak was a west Greenland style, with a nearly flat bottom (very shallow vee) and sides that were barely flared. Side waves slammed into it unmercifully. That's another advantage of a semi-rounded bottomed boat - side waves tend to slide under them with little disturbance to the boat.

 

[tx river rat]

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Jack
I will have to wait to evaluate this boat .
I can see that a boat that has a narrow bottom would be less effected bye side waves, that sort of makes sense to me.
I will agree with you on the rounded bottom not catching as much water going upstream.
The rounded shape has one thing to it I wish someone would explain to me, I have heard it said a bunch of times that a rounded bottom boat has less initial stability but more secondary.
Part of that makes sense and part of it doesnt to me.But that is another subject.
Ron

 

[Kayak Jack]

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It gets difficult to separate primary and secondary stability when you're already on the way over. (Sort of like when you're up to your a$$ in alligators, it's hard to remember that your primary goal was just to drain the swamp.) I think that the "more secondary stability" is really describing how a semi-rounded bottom is more predictable prior to finally tipping when heeled over than a flat bottom. that's been my experience. Others may have felt it differently.

 

[tx river rat]

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Jack that makes more sense than anything I have heard on the comparison ,basically the soft chined boat makes a smoother transition so it is more predictable.
Ill buy that
Ron

 

[tx river rat]

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If the weather is decent and not raining straight down she is getting wet tomorrow, want be finished ,but need to find out how she paddles before I do anything else to her.
Ron

 

[jdupre']

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[a Bald Cypress]

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Looking good.

The only thing I see that "may" be questionable is the square bow.

I did that on one of my canoes and the garn thing would just hit an object and stop, It would not ride up and over.

Let us know how it goes.

 

[tx river rat]

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Baldy
This nose has a little rounding at the bottom and a pretty good slope ,I dont think it will be a problem,The Duck is alot more squared end and it works ok for me.
Ron