Not being the biggest fan of rowing, my buddy and I tried to set a Universal 5432 engine into the boat to see how it’d fit. It looks like it’ll be a little large, but the V drive should help with the angle.

Finally working on the last pair of planks. After dry fitting I primed everything with straight epoxy so the wood won’t absorb the resin out of the 403 microfibers.

Then I slather on the thickened epoxy with a notched spreader and use my two hanging strings and work platforms to support the plank. It’s been difficult hanging planks alone, but it all works out. I don’t generally take pictures during this step since my hands are gooey but I figured I’d take a few since this is the last set.

Then I come back and drive all the screws in, clean up the squeeze out, and make nice fillets at all the interior joints. It takes about 2.5 hours to install a plank and about 12oz of epoxy.

Planking is finally finished! Finishing the inside is going to be more difficult, but my wife has been out of town and I figure it’s a better use of the larger chunks of time I have. Between now and Christmas we’ll be non stop hauling boats out for the winter so I won’t have much time at all to work on it.