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Dear
Sam,
This
has been quite the experience. The Pollywog I think
is going to be the perfect fly fishing boat,
although I still won't catch anymore fish the beauty
of the boat will help the pain. It has plenty of
storage for lunch, camera, rain gear and the such.
It still is lightweight and with the removable Happy
Wheel A Weigh set up, there will be no lake or
saltwater I can't challenge. I will be looking
forward to the enjoyment the Pollywog has to offer.
The Boat plans were clear and easy to understand.
Your
Boat Building Video is a must have.
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What I did was to
cut down the Bow and Stern in height to help the
deck process. It made the plywood bend easier.
The cockpit is two layers of eighth inch ply
cold molded around a temporary mold and then
scribed into place. The deck beams are cut from
plywood quarter inch by two inches it has six
bulk heads, two on each side and two in the
back. They are tri cell. It is one inch thick it
has one sixteenth Okoume ply on each side with
honey cone paper in the middle, Very, very
strong and super light weight. Shear clamp is
one half inch Mahogany, the cockpit is forty-two
inches by twenty-four and narrower at the Bow.
The cockpit should have been longer and I should
have made the seat lower. Although every thing
fits me perfect, the center of gravity should be
lower. It has a floor of quarter inch ply as
small as I could make it. I probably won't stand
up to cast much. "It is a small boat" The deck
is one-eighth ply and one eighth lumber
Mahogany, Ash and Walnut. I traced out the deck
on paper and then drew full scale the deck for
all of the patterns. Mapped it all out and
epoxyed with pushpins and spacers, covered over
with six-ounce cloth. Should have been
four-ounce cloth. There is plenty of storage
under the seat maybe for a couple of cold ones!
Contact
David Geiss
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