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After removing the old Sea Drive I tried every online classified forum I could to find it a new home. Even priced at $0.00 I had no takers...a staggering metric of the desirability of this power package. With things scheduled to arrive, we needed to make room. Otobepelagic forked the Sea Drive into the back of Holy Toledo's truck and we went for one last ride. Having it on a pallet made unloading at the dump ez...

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All right everyone, here we go. My buddy, fishing partner, neighbor, and a member here Neal Bowman has decided to build an 18 FT. Center Console Tolman Skiff. Neal's wife, Karen and Sleeter suckered me into documenting the process. Why does he want to build a boat when he has 3 big ones and 2 kayaks already? Why not just buy another one like the previous 5?
Because, first of all...HE CAN. Secondly, Neal's 15 year old son Josh is building it with him. Thirdly, it is the perfect skiff ...

You may remember this pic from an earlier blog...



When I first started poking around in the fish hold a few months ago I discovered that I was able to easily peel up this glass strip. The glass was brittle and had a huge void behind it. At the time, I ignored it because the repower was my priority, but with time on my hands I decided to get it over with. ...

I took today off so I could get this phase of the project done. I started out the day by sanding off the last layer of the homebrew filler. The surface was flat and faired but the filler was to viscous too fill minor imperfections...



The kicker holes at the same phase...

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I briefly sanded the repair to knock down any high spots or random fibers from the last round of glassing. I then made some thickened resin using a mix of cabosil and microballoons. This compound will act as a filler to get the repair to the final grade. I masked the repair area and skimmed the mixture on using a wide squeegee...



I did the same process to the ...