Finally. The Missouri in Montana gets insanely crowded in July too. I usually only fish there spring and fall. But this year the crowds are way way down. The Green might be relatively empty too. This year. Might be totally cool.by Sandy - Drift Boat Building
I caught my biggest on a crayfish fly. In August when the hatches are finished fishing deep, in the middle, is the only way. The skilled fishermen come earlier. In August the customers are all beginners. At the slowest time. That makes it tough. In August the guides put small balloons in the line followed by a long leader a pumpkin ball weight and two scuds. You can't cast that rig. Tby Sandy - Drift Boat Building
Back in the middle ages when they did jousting the riders carried those long blunt-tipped spears for knocking the other guy off the horse. You might need one of those on the Green in July. To keep the other drift boats a good social distance away. It's a beautiful river filled with trout. There might be some Pale Morning Duns still hatching that late. It's a tailwater river. Scuby Sandy - Drift Boat Building
Marfa Texas is a cool place. My daughter and her hubby go there once a year.by Sandy - Drift Boat Building
Looks interesting. Is it water base stuff? I've often wondered about water base floor finish. VOC floor finish too for that matter. The contractors all want a two part polyurethane now. Which sounds much the same as automotive finish for ten times the price, or "marine" polyurethane for 20 times the price.by Sandy - Drift Boat Building
Plywood is stronger, stiffer than Plascore, which only works if you put a lot of glass on it. But. It doesn't soak up water. I like your two later bottom idea.by Sandy - Drift Boat Building
.............good link Adventurous fiberglass warriors motivated by long term impact endurance might want to investigate vacuum-bagging with polypropelene fabric rather than Kevlar. And with various resins too. Like the above. i'm not going there now. I probably would if I was younger and not already retired. But my boat building days are winding down now. Fastly.by Sandy - Drift Boat Building
Boat Ramuda Found this old boat pic last night. The Boat in middle front is interesting. This was my first take on a one man boat. It was only 8' feet long so I made it 38" inches wide on the bottom. Seemed sensible. It rowed surprisingly well but it was annoyingly tippy. Getting in and out of the boat was a challenge that all too often ended up with me face down in the waterby Sandy - Drift Boat Building
I like painted hulls trimmed with oiled wooden seats. And gunwales. For a lot of reasons.by Sandy - Drift Boat Building
I've never been able to wrap glass around a sharp plywood edge like a side panel. At the chine you can get glass to work by rounding the edge. But you cannot do that at a side panel edge. You could theoretically cut 1" inch strips of glass and apply it to the top edge, letting the edges run horizontally wild. And then trim those edges a few hours later, with a fresh drywall knife, whby Sandy - Drift Boat Building
South and East of Great Galls. Nearer to Coffee Creek on Google Maps. And Geraldine.by Sandy - Drift Boat Building
Think about using Trex decking boards instead of wood. Trex does not soak up water.by Sandy - Drift Boat Building
A decked Buffalo Boat exists in my mind only. I have the boat upside down on my shop deck. I have to finish my other 18' footer first. I've been. I have not been in good health, last few months. Not much has happened except at my keyboard. I'm on the mend. So. That my excuse for not getting anything done. ========= I think of a decked Buffalo Boat as a bigger Dayak.by Sandy - Drift Boat Building
The software changes are all installed. I'll keep my eye out for bugs, broken links etc. let me know if you see something that needs fixing. Use this forum thread or message me with the site's Contact/email button. The only visible changes are behind the password barrier, in the boat plans and boat building pages, where everything now looks and acts more like an online book.by Sandy - Drift Boat Building
Sometime in the next two or three daze I'll update the site sofware. This usually goes without a hitch but you never know. This will not change the forum but it will be a low-level system change for everything else. The biggest change will be to the "Online Ebook" pages that display the how-to-do-it boat building instructions. Everything there will look and act more like a boby Sandy - Drift Boat Building
Like that approachby Sandy - Drift Boat Building
That would work. I'll stew on it.by Sandy - Drift Boat Building
If you could be satisfied with a fixed position foot brace just glue something down. Sand and clean it up and weight down a piece of wood with thickened resin. If you want adjustable it gets more complicated. Problem solving rears its head. With Plascore I might cut out two Circular areas and bury a bolt in resin so just the threads poked up.by Sandy - Drift Boat Building
It has occurred to me a drift boat could be made to perform better on flat water if it had some sort of a drop-down optional keel near the rear end. The motor goes on the transom so you'd need a slot behind the rower maybe. Which just gets covered or somehow sealed when not on flat still water.by Sandy - Drift Boat Building
Jeremy, who has built at least one Honky Dory, is building this little skiff. Jeremy's built several other boats too including one dory restoration and one built-from-scratch Briggs. He's got his boat building sea legs now. This boat is, in Jeremy's own words, meant only to be a quick and dirty lake boat for fishing with a small outboard. After this one is glassed up and runniby Sandy - Drift Boat Building
How did you make the sides and bottom panels with bamboo? What material did you start with? I am curious.by Sandy - Drift Boat Building
Whoah dew. That looks like a Jason Cajune boat. Very nice.by Sandy - Drift Boat Building
True dat. No flat bottomed driftboat is worth a shite on flat water. They work. Sort of. But they're too highly optimized for drifting in current.by Sandy - Drift Boat Building
I kept the "Balsa Core" plans for a long time but eventually erased them. I'm sure I have an electronic copy but finding it on an 8 terabyte disk that is half full is nigh impossible. What ever I said thirty years ago is now superseded by what ever I say now. I declare it so.by Sandy - Drift Boat Building
That will be a fine boat. Please keep us posted.by Sandy - Drift Boat Building
Over balsa core I'd to with 4 layers of 10oz fabric. That's a lot of glass but that's the price you pay for a core of any kind, that has no inherent rigidity. Same for Plascore.by Sandy - Drift Boat Building