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Glen-L Zip — garage runabout

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An example log of a plywood-on-frame runabout, part-built. Shows what an in-progress log looks like when it is kept honestly.

This is an example log, not a real project. It exists to show what a useful build log looks like — dated entries, tagged to a step, with hours recorded and mistakes written down. The technique in it is illustrative; don’t follow it as instruction, and check anything structural against your designer’s drawings. Its hours are excluded from the site’s median figures.
5
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51
Hours
133
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Photos
Sep 2025
Started
All steps Plans & Lofting Strongback & Molds Hull Panels Hull Exterior Fairing & Sanding
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Plans & Lofting 6 h

Plans and patterns arrived

Full-size patterns for the frames. Spent an evening just reading the drawings before cutting anything.

Worth doing: read the whole manual end to end first. There are decisions in step 40 that change what you do in step 4.

Illustration — example log, not a photograph.
Illustration — example log, not a photograph.