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
Seeing the MA, NH, and ME coast and marshes I now have a much better understanding of your skinny/short marshes and why extremely hideable boats are needed. I also feel much better about choosing the snow goose - our marshes are so much taller that anything more hideable would be overkill. Spectacular beauty up here!
Steve Sanford
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Henry~
Much of Long Island's Great South Bay (and neighboring waters) are low saltmarsh - mostly Salt Hay (Spartina patens) with low-growth Cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora) near the edges. The Old School Sanford loves the flat-on-your-back grassboats of Yore for the hide - but the Old Man Sanford appreciates taller TDBs and such for the the sit-up comfort and ease of shooting.
Every boat is a compromise!
All the best,
SJS
Plugging along since our return from the NE. Shelves epoxied and ready for install, additional base coat on sole and bilge, motorwell brass drains installed. Started cutting foam for flotation compartments while waiting for epoxy to dry. I'm using 1" insulation foam boards.
Steve Sanford
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Henry~
Great work - as always!
As a devotee of brightly painted storage spaces, I appreciate the pale cream. May I ask which paint/color?
Also, on your motor well: Will the "floor" be filleted et cetera - or is it screwed from below and set in 3M 5200 or other adhesive caulk?
All the best,
SJS
Steve Sanford
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Thank you, Sir!
SJS
Not much in the way of visible changes since the last update, but shelves are installed and fileted in place. One process note to capture for the future resource... I took measurements for the shelves much as I did for the sole with a story-board/story-stick. After cutting them to the basic dimensions and cutting insets for the bulkheads, I did some minor tweaking by inserting them in place and eyeballing fit. I did NOT worry about getting them exact - in fact, final fit gave between 1/8" and 1/4" gap around the outer (hull side) edges - as I knew I'd be fileting them in so any gap would become epoxy.
Installation was easy - a little thickened epoxy at the bulkeads and the shelves were tacked in place. Once dry, I used packing tape from underneath along the edges - done intentionally, you can create a mold for a bottomside filet. Then I simply pumped in some thickened epoxy (catsup consistency) and just let it fill the gaps. Once that hardened, but still green, I mixed peanut-butter consistency epoxy and made the filets on top of the shelves. Once cured the packing tape pulled off easily. Also got some blocks mounted around the upper perimeter of the hull for attaching cable ties without drilling the hull.
Other work the last week includes designing and prepping pieces for my electrical switch mount and for a gps/fish finder mount. After playing with a few options, I've decided the latter will most likely attach to the coaming so it may be a while before I post on that.
Installation was easy - a little thickened epoxy at the bulkeads and the shelves were tacked in place. Once dry, I used packing tape from underneath along the edges - done intentionally, you can create a mold for a bottomside filet. Then I simply pumped in some thickened epoxy (catsup consistency) and just let it fill the gaps. Once that hardened, but still green, I mixed peanut-butter consistency epoxy and made the filets on top of the shelves. Once cured the packing tape pulled off easily. Also got some blocks mounted around the upper perimeter of the hull for attaching cable ties without drilling the hull.
Other work the last week includes designing and prepping pieces for my electrical switch mount and for a gps/fish finder mount. After playing with a few options, I've decided the latter will most likely attach to the coaming so it may be a while before I post on that.