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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.
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Entries
51
Hours
133
Days elapsed
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Photos
Sep 2025
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All steps Plans & Lofting Strongback & Molds Hull Panels Hull Exterior Fairing & Sanding
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Strongback & Molds 10 h

Frames cut, strongback set up

All frames cut and assembled, set up on the building form and checked for level and square.

Spent longer levelling the strongback than building the frames. Everything downstream depends on it being true.

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