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Dang it,Casey.....lol. FB - You and I are on the same wavelength today. I was about to post a "WTB - trailer for 15' gheenoe" and then I saw your add. I'm thinking the trailer may be too short, but had asked Dubble for some measurements to confirm that. I think I need it to be at least 14...

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Nice. Congrats Will and Tommy T.

Second coat of gel coat is on. She's looking good.

Casey, I have a 13' that I'm rebuilding. What did you use for your false floor ? Skip found an old center console on the side of the road at Alligator Point. He cut it up into flat, rectangular pieces the width of the main channel running down the center of the boat. We laid those end to end, epoxi...

What brand of gel coat did you use? How much does it take to cover the inside of a Gheenoe? My redneck camo spray paint job is in need of a do over. To be honest, I have no clue what brand it is. I bought the gel coat (as well as most of my supplies) from Angie's Marine Supply in Medart and it came...

We were able to gel coat half of the boat last night. Only got half done because our fiberglass and resin from the night before hadn't dried yet. Always make sure you use enough hardener...we had to mix up an extra hot batch of resin / hardener and spread it over the still-wet glass and then go over...

Boy are we getting close to getting this baby finished. Both the decks have been glassed, sanded, and then re-glassed. Yesterday we patched up areas where the first attempt at fiberglassing wasn't pretty. Because of the steep angle, a large air bubble had formed inside the glass right on the front d...

lizbeth wrote:where is your access for your drain plug ?

We're adding a hatch to the back deck and will be able to access the drain plug through that hatch as well as the bilge pump.

Got the back deck laid up tonight. Here's a shot of the structural glass prior to adding the resin / hardener mix. http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w14/tcaseycook/2012-09-11_18-18-21_572.jpg Here's a shot of the deck after we've rolled the resin in. You can also see the LED light we've installed t...

It's been a month since my last update...work and gator season have gotten in the way of progress on the gheenoe. DCruz and I were finally able to get back to work last night. When we got to the house, Skip had already screwed down both of the decks so they were ready for fiberglass. In our month lo...

findmeontheflats.com wrote:Sorry casey just realized you are in Tally also. My offer still stands. I will buy it tomorrow if you will take $275 cash.

That thing's long gone...sold it a while ago. Good luck in your search.

Did a bit more work last night. Finished glassing in the other half of the false floor and added some glass to what will be one of the bulkheads for the front deck. Also patched a few thin spots on the inside of the hull. The false floor is glassed in - we added a drain to the front section of the f...

Last night we sanded off most of the remaining gel coat and got to work glassing in the false floor. Before laying the glass down, Jason mixed sawdust and some resin together and made a filler solution that we layed in the gap between the false floor and the deck. After the filler was in, we layed t...

CT - Thanks for the info. This gheenoe project has been fun, I've learned a lot, and expect to learn much more before it's finished. I'm going to stick with plywood for this first boat just because it's cheaper to learn with than the foam board and not as expensive when you screw up. Gheenoes are a ...