richiedel123 wrote: »

It's a friend of mine that's doin it. I think he just seen a few videos on you tube and made up his own measurements for it. I'll quiz him more and find out for definite. He has reeds tied together in a mat to cover the top and the boat is going to be painted in a camo colour.

Gavin duck wrote: »

Cut down rushes and made a grass mat out of them have them hanging in the shead drying out going to tackle the paint job on the layout boat to morro just need to get another can of primer to give her another coat before painting ill get riche to post some pictures of the boat when it's done and might post her maiden voyage on u tube the other lads christened her spud they said she! Ed sink like one

Gavin duck wrote: »

I just had a look on the Internet at some of the videos on utube and made some adjustments made it bigger than most of the ones I have seen in order to make room for the dog I have a lab and she is bout 6 stone she is like a small horse have to test her out before the weekend don't even know how stable it will be should be though but I would not recommend it for storm force weather as a wave would probly fill it in one go but then it could be ok only time will tell if any one needs help or advice on building one let me no and I can give them a run down on how I have done mine

Gavin duck wrote: »

It's not Fiberglass as such it is300 gram woven roven cloth when u make ur sub frame from ur marine ply u roll ur cloth out over the entire boat and smooth it out with a soft paint brush makeing sure that u leave no creases on the cloth then when u have it smooth mix ur resin and cover the entire boat with the resin thill the sheet is compleat ly wet and is the same colour as the wood u r using leave it to dry depending on the weather may take 6 to 12 hrs to dry then prime with 4 coats of high build primer I used a car primer which is not water proof it 15 euro a tin took 2 tins vrs marine yaght primer 72 euro a tin I then used a flat interdeck marine paint grey colour 27 euro a tin 2 750 ml tins will give four coats of paint on the boat the camo job was two tins of Matt spray paint which I got in the local hardware shop 9.99 a can and some ash leaves from a tree and a few stencils I got on the Internet don't use any gloss spray cans as they are shiny Matt or satin paint and spray from a distance in short burst s or the paint wll run i done the white first cause the black will cover any mistakes or runs u make ill post a video on or ill get Richard to post it its not very hard to do and I was very happy with the result as ye can see in the pictures I am going to make another few in the near future but will probably change a few things I need to angle the back board a little