Redneck...10 hours and $75.00 start to finish

Yes...I know...no pictures! BUT I have another update. I have blown both the build cash ($85 now) and the time (about 11 hours) but I have the wales on, a bottom rub strip installed, a seat installed and the inside and outside caulked and filled. I have been dodging the weather and my jobs and working right up until I have to cover it and I haven't gotten any pictures taken. Not really exciting stuff...looks like it was a guest target at the St Valentines Day Massacre for all the holes and screws caulked but otherwise it is as you see it above. I expect it is about ready for painting when the caulk cures. I will probably exceed my target of 2 hours of actual painting but it should be water worthy by 15 hours of labor. I should have budgeted 15 hours and $100 for the build. I expect that with some help I could have come in at 10 hours or under but some things just take more than twice the time without that pair of helping hands. I would say the boat weighs in at about 60 lbs right now so with paint it should hit about 65 lbs. I'll weight it when I am done to see just how far of I am on that figure too.

 

sounds like a military program, cost overruns and behind schedule

 

I was Gov't property for 20+ years...hard to get out of the system you know!

 

Naw, if it was military it would be millions of $ over budget and years behind schedule. Or if you want to schale it down, the $75/10 hour boat would come in at $7,500,/ 10,000 hours, and weigh in at about 4 tons. That is what happens after all those high priced lobbyists convince the congress that their client's latest wiz-bang accessory must be including in the purchase.

 

That is what happens when the brass gets involved. If they left it to the enlisted man it wouldn't be nearly as bad.

Enlisted?

 

Yep! Retired E6

 

I got to E5 before I decided not to stay in, in 1967

 

I did a bit over 4 years in the AF, then around 6 in the active Army and finished in the Army Guard. Been out for ohhhh... 5 1/2-6 years now.

 

Some more work this morning...finishing up the caulking the inside (I missed a couple of spots) and added a couple of smaller skids on the bottom. Here you see the seat installed. Most of the caulk I used cures clear so you can't really see all the stuff slathered in there. I used some stuff called PolySeamSeal. Claims it is a caulk and glue in one. With a couple of coats of paint over it I expect it to do fine...sure is a pain to get off the skin (don't go shirtless when caulking and if you do...shave first!!)



Here is the outside with the skids on it.



and a Profile shot:






I am planning on leaving the wales bright...and I have two choices of paint color. Which would go best do you think...opinions please.
Exterior / Interior
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Almond / Almond
Vermont Green / Almond
Vermont Green / Vermont Green
Almond / Vermont Green

Vermont green is slightly more olive than Forrest Green


You have until Tomorrow 10 am to voice your opinion

 

Vermont Green / Almond

 

Ditto, Vermont Green / Almond

 

a very nice boat but could you scale it up to 250 feet?

 

I'd paint it razzle dazzle

 

The only surface combat this will see is with a few wayward geese...think I'll skip the Destroyer cammy....thanks anyhoo...

 

watch it with the geese , I have a pet goose