Low Resolution (click) | | I (Sandy) built this boat in 1981-1982 or so.
I'm pretty sure it was the third boat I built.
I built two or three more like this (with different
hull shapes) but still with ribs inside fir plywood.
Then one day, on a hunch (and after reading something
about Instant Boats by Dynamite Payson) I took a sledge
hammer to the ribs (of a boat like this), knocked them out,
and then fiberglassed the whole thing, insdide and out.
I never built with ribs again.
I called this "ribless" construction.
Most people refer to it as "stitch-and-sew" construction
now. But the result is the same: a ribless boat, with
a thin skin of epoxy fiberglass encasing a (relatively) thin
core of marine plywood.
Curtis Kelly bought this boat in Dillon, after it had been
left out in the sun and the rain for twenty years, and restored
it last winter.
Nice work Curtis!
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