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  1. Posted an entry on Glen-L Hot Rod

    Deck: With the deck plywood installed, it's time to build up two layers of ten ounce fiberglass

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    Deck: Fiberglass was trimmed with a utility knife and blocked with coarse sandpaper

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    Deck: Before epoxying the deck, we had to trim the flotation foam billets to clear our new bow l

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    Deck: The pop-up bow light mounts in a plastic housing (at left of photo)

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    Deck: Blocking for the pop-up deck cleats was made from 3/4" marine grade plywood

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    Deck: Time to finish up the front deck

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    Propeller: The prop on the left is our old OJ 12x16p LH 3 blade Nibral propeller

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    Seats: Time to get back to some finishing and get the seats ready for upholstery

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    Exhaust: The sensors are only installed when we wish to check the carburetor's calibration after we

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    Exhaust: To help tune our carbureted engine, we fabricated aluminum spacer blocks to mount a wideba

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    Propeller: Steeper shaft angles increase upward thrust which increases transom lift and decrease bow

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    Tonneau cover: The first round of primer surfacer was applied

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    Tonneau cover: Here are a few photos after trimming the tonneau cover to fit around the engine

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    Jump seats and fuel tank: We'll be installing the fuel tanks using David Pascoe's method

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    Jump seats and fuel tank: Port side fuel tank was placed on its cradle and the jumpseat panels were installed

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    Tonneau cover: The remaining sub deck panels were glued and screwed

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    Tonneau cover: Six ounce cloth was applied with West System epoxy catalyzed with 206 Slow hardener

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    Jump seats and fuel tank: Our custom aluminum fuels tanks arrived on the 23rd

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    Tonneau cover: We've decided to build a removable hard shell tonneau cover to protect the engine and rela

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    Tonneau cover: We've removed the tonneau cover from the boat and placed it on our trolley for sheeting an

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    Deck: Not much new to see here, just more blocking and priming until the panels are flawless !

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    Deck: We've decided to build a removable hard shell tonneau cover to protect the engine and rela

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    Deck: A transit level was used to mark a 6" waterline on the hull

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    Trailer: We used the gantry lift to flip the trailer so we could easily weld the trailer tongue jac

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    Deck: The rear deck was sanded with an inline air file with 40 grit sandpaper and blocked with a

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    Deck: With the rear deck panels installed, it's time to put a 1/2" radius on the deck ply at the

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    Deck: Deck was covered with 10 ounce fiberglass cloth

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    Deck: Deck blocking was added to handle the plywood joint

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    Jump seats and fuel tank: The 5/8" rubber fuel vent hose has been looped to form a high loop before its routed to th

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    Jump seats and fuel tank: We built up the jumpseat's leading edge with a piece of 1" x 2" stock and radiused the top