Sunday, April 29, 2012

One Sheet Skiff

My youngest son Jon got it in his head that he wanted to build a boat(I fully confess to implanting that desire). Well, after looking at the One Sheet Skiff designed by Herb McCleod, I decided to give it a shot. I picked up a type of underlayment sold in the local Lowes called SurePly. Seems to work pretty well. I had Lowes make the initial 9 inch cuts, which was a mistake, as the dude cut it short on one side. I was able to hide the deficiency under a piece of decking on the bow of the boat, but it would have made the task much easier to have made a good cut myself. At this point, I'm almost done. I opted to make it a sailing version, and re-used the Aqua-Glide MultiSport rig we had already. I'll post pics some pics as I write out the build notes.