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We live in a lake community so, it's staying local for now.
Perhaps a trip to Monksville Reservoir sometime in the future.

Boat is now complete! Had it in the water a few days ago. Perfect!

The pictures are up.
https://boatbuilders.glen-l.com/rowme-d ... Vernon,-NJ

As time permits I'll add more info to each picture with my trials and tribulations, if there were any.

I just uploaded a ton of pictures and created a Gallery.
Emailed the admins to let them know and now waiting for them to activate the Gallery.
Once it is viewable, I'll post the link here.

I'll still be posting progress here, but all pictures will be updated on the Gallery as time permits.

For me, a quick update was cathartic. Makes me feel like I'm pushing myself to get this done in spite of everything going on. If nothing else, this thread is my journal so I can look back and see how long, and know why things hit speed bumps. I saw someone built this boat in 2 months. So far, I'm up...

Wow! Way to troll and express your opinion for everyone Mark.
"No soup for you"

So it's 8 months later. Still chugging along but I did make a lot of progress this past month! Here's what I've done: Ripped the first sheer and burned out my table saw motor in the process (don't ask). I created a jig for my circular saw which finished the ripping job. Installed the inside sheers, ...

Been over a year since my last post. I kind of got stuck on starting the inside fiberglass. After getting over being intimidated, I started with one small area. Not as bad as I feared,....and now I just finished fiberglassing all inside seams. Also have the front and middle seats filled with flotati...

Wow,..my last post was June,..time is not my friend. I managed to epoxy fill the gaps on the inside seams. I had had some problems with the bow where my boards just were not meeting enough. Luckily,...with a little tape on the outside covering the small gap, I was able to epoxy fill the gap. I've st...

Finally able to start working on the rowboat again.
Over the weekend, I added the fillets and the next day removed all the stitches.
Hey, what do you know, it didn't fall apart.

First batch of epoxy mix for fillets a lesson on "what not to do".
Subsequent mixes were fine.

Finished the transom finally and just wired it in. The boat is officially and totally wired. Now onto fillets.

Have all the seat uprights completed as well as the seat supports attached to the uprights. Finished the transom,...and decided to lower for a motor at some point. 5 HP is the most HP to use. I have an electric motor, but may look into a used 5 HP at some point. I also have the motor mounts finished...

Thanks for the info Bill! Will look into that.

Last night, it was 27 degrees here in Northern New Jersey,...so the going is pretty slow now.
Then there's that four-letter thing called "work".

Thanks Bill! Yes, the foam sheets didn't seem all that expensive,...so I think I will go that route.
Good idea on drain plug,...need to find that as well.

Took a step back and decided to look at the bow seat issue I had described earlier. I forget who mentioned it,..but the suggestion was to loosen up some of the stitches and try the bow seat again. At first, stubborn me was just going to wire in the bow seat upright in a new location and fill in the ...