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Oh those do sound like exciting restorations. I’m in! Regarding the ribs. Buds were sawn in three pieces and then glued. Two on the hull side and one on the deck. The bottom pieces were glued and screwed just to port of the centerline, I presume to allow clean wood in the ribs for bilge drain...

I ran into a photo limit on the last post so adding a few other pics on various details Painter. eye spliced and whipped ends. The bow handle has a 2.5" ring on it to serve as a fairlead for the anchor line keeper for the forward end of the push pole. 4 gauge copper wire keeps it upright and...

Hello Steve. You are exactly correct; that is a slot for the gun. I went to a flapper board a couple years ago from a rolled mat across the cockpit and in the initial iteration never quite found a ready and safe place for the gun that I liked. I tried this configuration and it worked slick...

Thank you Eric. It was a fun build and an enjoyable way to spend evenings. Looking forward to using it this year. Thank you also for the new resources. There’s another building there somewhere. Trust alls well with you. Been following your old tool restorations and they are all looking tremendous.

Well, it's been a minute since I last posted (life!) and since this site started my obsession with sneakboxes some 20-25 years ago, I owed a post on a recent build. For the past 15 or so years, I have been hunting from a boat designed by Bud Miles and built with his permission by another...