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    Casting a fiberglass shaft tube

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    Building a boring bar for the shaft hole

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    Scarfing plywood with a radial arm saw

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    Cavitation plates: The boat is finally back on its trailer

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    Frame templates: The following photos describe how we produced frame templates for the Glen-L Hot Rod

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    Cavitation plates: It's a very tight fit, but there's just enough room for the thru hull fitting and cavitati

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    Cavitation plates: An hour later, we topcoated the white base coat with single stage Sherwin Williams Genesis

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    Cavitation plates: Opening for the thru hull fitting is to the left of exhaust pipe hole

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    Cavitation plates: Time to get the transom ready for final paint

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    Cavitation plates: Once we got the control rod back from the machine shop, the turnbucles were trial fitted

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    Cavitation plates: The cavitation plate is fastened to the transom with 5/16" x 3-1/2" stainless steel button

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    Cavitation plates: A 9/32" pilot hole was bored followed by a 5/16" tap to thread the bolt hole

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    Cavitation plates: We fabricated an alignment jig made from 3/4" plywood scraps and hose clamps to mark locat

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    Cavitation plates: Hole centerlines were marked with a die grinder cutoff wheel

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    Exhaust: The air-fuel meter can monitor each cylinder bank individually or can provide an average f

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    Glen-L Gathering 2011: The boat needs a major cleanup when we get home !!

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    Exhaust: The spacer blocks added 3" to the overall width of the exhaust system, so while we were at

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    Seats: Here are some photos of the completed upholstery

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    Hydraulic steering: Here's the finished dash

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    Seats: The rubber webbing we originally used for the seat base and back was too soft, so we repla

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    Trailer: We welded a square tube stub into the fender step to receive a removable boat guide on the

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    Propeller: The propeller shaft was shortened by 5/8" to reduce the distance between the aft end of th

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    Deck: The deck was airfiled with 80 grit sandpaper followed up with 100 grit on a longboard

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    Deck: Low spots required very little finishing putty

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    Deck: Before we spray several rounds of black primer-sealer to the deck and hull, we clearcoated

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    Deck: The hull was prepped and sprayed with two rounds of Sherwin-Williams SpectraSeal 2K-uretha

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    Deck: Fill coat # 1 : We blocked out the seams with coarse sandpaper and airfiled the surface wi

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    Deck: Fill coat # 3 and 4 : Once the epoxy was fully cured, we airfiled with 80 grit sandpaper a

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    Deck: Starboard deck was installed using thickened epoxy and fastened with silicon bronze screws

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    Deck: The port deck was buttoned down