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Jersey Girl

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Jim Norman's 20 foot houseboat, built in his northern New Jersey driveway from 2015 to 2021. The design started from Roy Schreyer's Dianne's Rose, stretched three feet and reworked into his own. Okoume plywood hull over sawn frames and bulkheads, a cabin of cedar posts and laminated roof beams sheathed in pine beadboard, and a fiberglassed arched roof with gull wing panels over the aft deck. Launched on the Hackensack River in May 2021, she now cruises Lake Hopatcong, where she took the Ladies' Choice award at the 2024 antique and classic boat show.

Make a book Feed The whole log, 16 entries and every photo, laid out as a book to print, bind and keep.

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Fri 27 Dec 2019 Strongback & Molds Link

I took advantage of another warm December day to do a little more work on Jersey...

Houseboat update, Friday, December 27, 2019 -- I took advantage of another warm December day to do a little more work on Jersey Girl's aft door frame, installing short pieces of epoxy-finished tongue-and-groove pine at the top on the inside. Eventually, I will seal the gap at the roof, and cover it with a neat-looking moulding strip. Tomorrow, I will install a cedar head jamb and possibly the side jambs as well. (If you don't know what jambs are, check back over the next few days and all will become clear.)

Nobody else here is logging a Jersey Girl yet. See the boat.