Quick update - completed my wiring layout and got that all removed and stored. Shelf bases and battery stands/boxes cut and dry fit.
2025 Devlin Snow Goose Thread
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Steve Sanford
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Henry~
Congratulations on the fine progress!
A couple of thoughts on shelves. I generally add a lip (more properly a "fiddle") and some scuppers - to keep valuables in and nuisance water out.
I usually add some shell holders in the fiddle on my shorter shelves.
Because such shelves are largely out of the weather, I often use a bit of varnish to yachten (?) up the vessel.
The shell sockets require careful boring on the drill press - so the brass (!) remains above the fiddle and each socket can drain.
All the best!
SJS
Thanks Steve, I do plan on lips (but I'll start calling them fiddles now!) and really like your shell holders, so will incorporate some. Suppers are a good idea, too - thanks!
Battery hold-downs completed and installed, sole/hull joints glassed and faired, and final epoxy coat applied to sole, bulkheads, flotation compartments, bilge, and lower sides. The same areas primed and with a good base coat - gloss poly in the areas that will be covered (for easier cleaning and maintenance and better water protection), flat Parkers in the cockpit area.
Now, off for our road trip to ME, CT, MA, and NY. On return will get shelves completed and installed and foam cut for installation in flotation compartments, then can finally get to work installing the decking I've prepped. I'd originally planned to get my wiring run before putting on the deck, but since I moved the runs out closer to the hull sides I'll wait until after decking is installed, fileted, sealed, and painted. Still a lot to do, but seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.
I haven't yet located a good used trailer and motor - if they aren't located soon after our return I'll have to get moving in ordering new.
Now, off for our road trip to ME, CT, MA, and NY. On return will get shelves completed and installed and foam cut for installation in flotation compartments, then can finally get to work installing the decking I've prepped. I'd originally planned to get my wiring run before putting on the deck, but since I moved the runs out closer to the hull sides I'll wait until after decking is installed, fileted, sealed, and painted. Still a lot to do, but seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.
I haven't yet located a good used trailer and motor - if they aren't located soon after our return I'll have to get moving in ordering new.
Steve Sanford
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Good morning, Henry~
Just spectacular! The workmanship is astonishingly fine. And nice shell holders, too!
All the best,
SJS
Just spectacular! The workmanship is astonishingly fine. And nice shell holders, too!
All the best,
SJS
Henry
She's looking fantastic. The attention to details is impressive. I have no doubt she gets launched before duck season.
She's looking fantastic. The attention to details is impressive. I have no doubt she gets launched before duck season.
Thanks!
RM Anderson
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Henry,
Absolutely beautiful fit and finish!
RM
Absolutely beautiful fit and finish!
RM