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Finished!

Three layers of glass painted black

Plastic cap removed to reveal the separation

Filling the voids with fibrglass resin

Voids filled

Slight delamination of the forward edge of the transom

That sounds like a cool trip! Congrats on the new boat! How much fuel did you use between Juneau and Sitka?

A friend recently pointed out that trim tabs can push the bow down, but only motor trim can push the bow up. That was a break-through in my understanding of how to trim my 22-Cruiser for following seas. I had been simply raising the trim tabs and finding the bow still dug into the wave ahead...

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Thinking more about following seas. These are good, although the one with the cargo ships is complicated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CVwaYbyw5c&t=268s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf5lhO4CCiI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfaL6NMUfYo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGQXe35--Jk This...

i have a 22 Cruiser with the extra-headroom roof. Marine surveyor measured mine on the trailer at: Length 29’6” with motor up. 2’ less motor down. 8’6” wide, 8’8” tall.

I wonder if somebody will make a 90HP electric outboard that would work on a C-Dory. And what will the battery weigh? What if you could boat once a week and recharge from a solar panel on the roof?

Haha. The boat park looks fun, but happily our old boat went to a capable carpenter with plans to restore and sail it. It still has plenty of life left in it.

My dory came from plans John Gardner published in the National Fisherman. I stretched his plan by two feet, and lofted it on the plywood floor of the house we were building at the time. However, Renn Tolman was alive and building boats at the time, and he gave me a ton of good advice. I went to...

Sometimes I wish we still had it. But sanding still makes my hands hurt. Wood Zep - How do you like the 16-footer? Why 16' vs. 22'?

Here is our first dory, which I built from plans in the National Fisherman around 1986. The lofted plans are still under the flooring in our upstairs bedroom, lol. It was 22'with mahogany frames, a marine plywood skin and a layer of epoxy/fiberglass on the bottom for durability, powered by a...

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Predecessor to our C-Dory... a plywood dory I built from plans in the National Fisherman

I've been putting the trim tabs up running downwind, but good point about trimming the motor up. My old home-built dory occaisonally tried to broach too, but it was easier to control. It had a wider, completely flat bottom slightly turned up at the nose.