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Dennis, who owns that company was very helpful to me in modifying a traditional deep vee trailer I got on the cheap for my drift boat. Sells all the components you'll need to modify as needed.
http://www.driftboattrailers.com/Standard-Trailers.html
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caneyqueen
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Drift Boat Building
Finished mine in June after about 15 months of work on and off.
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caneyqueen
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Drift Boat Building
I've never stained wood for boat use, but I've finished a lot of furniture and alcohol-based wood dyes are a great alternative to stain. dyes are color only with no pigment whereas stains have pigment...so with dye you get transparent color that brings out the highlights in any wood with zero distortion of the grain caused by pigments. dyes come in water-based as well, but those ten
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caneyqueen
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Drift Boat Building
did a quick measure and it's 19 in dia. the flat side that will be mounted to the floor is 14 in from outer edge to the flat side.
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caneyqueen
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Drift Boat Building
3 plies of 1/8 in plywood epoxied around a form. same form as for the pedestals, just with no top or front attached and turned on it's side. 6 oz fiberglass on both sides. I'm 250 lbs so I also ran about 2 dozen very small stainless screws through the plies when done to sort of "lock" the plies in place as it's tough to do the glue-up without some voids and those will
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caneyqueen
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Drift Boat Building
Interesting you say that. I fish, but also build custom furniture as a hobby and I have to admit I'm classifying this as a furniture project more than a fishing project and am gonna cry when it get's the first scratch. But it's gonna happen. I once read a quote from a boatbuilder in "Wooden Boat" magazine saying that building a boat is like making a beautiful piece of
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caneyqueen
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Drift Boat Building
After 15 months, lots of epoxy/sanding cyles, periods of enthusiastic building and others of apathy and "project fatigue", many many many hours gathering great advice on this forum and a hip replacement along the way my boat's ready to hit the water. 14.5 ft overall, 54 inches across middle bottom and 74 inches at oarlocks. Marine ply, african mahogany that I hand picked for lon
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caneyqueen
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Drift Boat Building
I didn't keep track but would guess something like 400 or so. Feel like now that I've done one that I could do another one in about 40 days. however, pretty sure I wouldn't do it again as the epoxy application/sanding repetition seems to never end. Updated image attached. Boat is fundamentally ready for the water. I've attached seats, anchor arm, etc since the new phot
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caneyqueen
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Drift Boat Building
got my heat gun, scrapers and sander out yesterday and took varnish off the sidedecks. gonna paint side decks with same paint as outside hull. not sure what happened with the varnish, but not gonna have a crap looking boat after hundreds of hours of work.
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caneyqueen
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Drift Boat Building
I painted sides with Kirby Alkyd Enamel and it went on great brush/tip. I just thinned the epifanes 25% with epifanes brushing thinner, sanded/coated a small area about 8x8 in and put a clean bucket over it. if that's got bubbles in the morning I'm sanding the decks and painting with Enamel to match hull.
Disappointing as hell after a year's work looking forward to a nice br
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caneyqueen
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Drift Boat Building
Appreciate the comment Eric. I used a new brush and left it suspended in thinner between coats, shaking it out before each new coat. I didn't thin any of the coats as application was over cured west system epoxy vs raw wood so didn't think thinning was necessary as there would be no varnish soaking into/penetrating wood fibers. If thinning might help eliminate bubbles I'm read
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caneyqueen
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Drift Boat Building
I brushed on the epifanes...reference to hvlp was just to say that I've sprayed in the same garage space on other projects without dust. epifanes rep is convinced it's dust but there's no way. I covered the horizontal surfaces with new plastic dropcloth within 12 inches of surface immediately after brushing on the varnish.
gonna take your advice and sand/recoat in hot space.
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caneyqueen
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Drift Boat Building
there's at least 3 coats of west system on the panel already...epifanes tech support swears it's dust but I had last coat completely covered with new plastic dropcloth about 12 inches above finished surface immediately after applying varnish. ends of the dropcloth were open so varnish could cure... so dust would have had to travel straight horizontally into both open ends of plastic d
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caneyqueen
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Drift Boat Building
Have applied 3 coats of Epiphanes Wood Finish Gloss per below and have thousands of microbubbles. thought I'd avoid lots of sanding and go with this product that can be recoated without sanding within 72 hrs and has rave reviews on Jamestown Dist, amazon, etc. ended up with a big mess.
1) coat 1 applied with china brush over west system cured for at least 6 months, sanded 220 and va
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caneyqueen
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Drift Boat Building
Gotta run the anchor rope tubing, install anchor rope cam cleat, run rope through ropeseat and mount that seat to hoop with adjustable forward/backward base, permanently install center seat hoop, final-sand interior down and varnish sidedecks and above, light gray durabak everything below sidedecks, get it on my trailer and apply the "Caney Queen" logo in white on red sides.
Oh yah..
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caneyqueen
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Drift Boat Building
Ready to paint the interior and as with most major steps like this one, have over-researched and have "analysis paralysis". Don't want an extremely rough deck and need it to be light gray, so landed on Durabak for now. Gonna use the "smooth" version (vs their "non skid" product with rubber granules) and apply with a relatively low knap roller. Also like Ki
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caneyqueen
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Drift Boat Building
33 inches, 16 lb, 2 oz Steelie
Want airborne 6 times and under the boat 3 times. Guide grew up fishing the Muskegon and said he's never seen nor heard of a larger Steelie coming from that river.
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caneyqueen
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Drift Boat Building
I looked very hard at Wetlander for bottom of the skiff I'm building from Cajune plans but decided to go with roll-on Raptor instead based on reviews of Raptor I'd read online and cost. It's my first boat build so I'm relying heavily on this site and other blogs. Wetlander is expensive stuff. The Raptor went on easily and I got two good coats from a "double" pa
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caneyqueen
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Drift Boat Building
or steelie fishing in the Muskegon...followed by dinner and beer at Barskis in Baldwin...order the Barski Burger !!
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caneyqueen
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Drift Boat Building