Strip Stich @ glue Northwind

makenmend · **Posted:** Wed Mar 23, 2011 10:13 am

Don't think that given the same enjine,the performance of your boat and Darrell's should be on par, the hulls are vertually identicle.

MM

bowgarguide · **Joined:** Mon Jan 15, 2007 8:52 pm **Posts:** 5287

MM
I think they should be pretty close. We paddle about the same so we should get a good ideal of the difference performance if there is any.
Ron

Paddletrucker · **Posted:** Wed Mar 23, 2011 1:49 pm

That's really looking nice. Is it going to be a bigger camping boat with tons of storage and capacity?

gerald · **Posted:** Wed Mar 23, 2011 3:33 pm

bowgarguide wrote:

MM
I think they should be pretty close. We paddle about the same so we should get a good ideal of the difference performance if there is any.
Ron

I will follow ya'll to see which one is faster....

bowgarguide · **Joined:** Mon Jan 15, 2007 8:52 pm **Posts:** 5287

I think what Gerald means is he will be paddling circles around us :lol:

Ron

Crappieguy · **Joined:** Mon Mar 28, 2011 4:38 pm **Posts:** 3

Cuz, your boat looks like it's being built by Michael Angelo, but your saw horses looks like they went ten rounds with Mike Tyson. I guess it takes a REAL craftsman to build a good sawhorse. Want me to build you a couple?

bowgarguide · **Joined:** Mon Jan 15, 2007 8:52 pm **Posts:** 5287

Nothing like smart a$$ kin folks :lol:

Yea build me a couple of your super duper delux harses.
Ron

bowgarguide · **Joined:** Mon Jan 15, 2007 8:52 pm **Posts:** 5287

Well I have been stomping cussing and throwing a fit because its been to cold for the epoxy to set right and so much pollen in the air that if you had wet epoxy outside it would look like a green wooly worm in about 15 min.
Got off my backside and built a boat tunnel untill I can get my shop built. the plastic catches more heat so the epoxy worked really well today.
I put the Northwind in the tunnel and gave her a coat of epoxy to seal everything and have the color so I can start matching and filling the holes for the stitches.

Epoxy sure brings out the colors.
Ron

gerald · **Posted:** Sun Apr 03, 2011 7:39 am

Damn Ron! You're just a boat building dynamo! I like your clean room.

Crappieguy · **Joined:** Mon Mar 28, 2011 4:38 pm **Posts:** 3

Wow! nice job, R.E. It looks great.

makenmend · **Posted:** Mon Apr 04, 2011 5:51 pm

Ron, I thought I should let you know, watering it and placing it in a greenhouse isn't going to make it grow any bigger :wink:

MM

rodloos · **Posted:** Tue Apr 05, 2011 5:53 pm

Man, Ron is really going all out on streamlining his boat, even testing it in a wind tunnel!

It's looking purty!

bowgarguide · **Joined:** Mon Jan 15, 2007 8:52 pm **Posts:** 5287

Precoat on
Got holes filled and the hull sanded again , be ready for glass and cloth shortly

Ron

bowgarguide · **Joined:** Mon Jan 15, 2007 8:52 pm **Posts:** 5287

Laid the cloth and letting her relax

First coat , she will start getting shinny shortly.

Ron

bowgarguide · **Joined:** Mon Jan 15, 2007 8:52 pm **Posts:** 5287

got the decks glued down today ,will start shaping them tomorrow.

Ron

Iwannagofishin · **Joined:** Thu Oct 28, 2010 3:49 pm **Posts:** 124

Hold up there Speedy. I've been watching to see how you built your 3 panel decks. I'll be putting a similar deck on my River Ranger soon and wanted to know more about that process.

A few more details please?

Dogpaddlin · **Posted:** Tue Apr 19, 2011 8:47 am

Iwannagofishin wrote:

Hold up there Speedy. I've been watching to see how you built your 3 panel decks. I'll be putting a similar deck on my River Ranger soon and wanted to know more about that process.

A few more details please?

If you notice, Ron himself is never in any of his build pictures. That is because he moves so fast the camera can't catch him!