| I built this boat in 1981-1982 or so.
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| I'm pretty sure it was the third boat I built.
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| I built two or three more like this (with different
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| hull shapes) but still with ribs inside fir plywood.
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| Then one day, on a hunch (and after reading something
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| about Instant Boats by Dynamite Payson) I took a sledge
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| hammer to the ribs (of a boat like this) and fiberglassed
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| the inside and outside of the boat, and I never used ribs
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| again. I called it "ribless" construction.
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| Curtis Kelly bought this boat in Dillon, after it had been
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| left out in the sun and the rain for twenty years, and restored
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| it. Nice work Curtis!
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