Brushfire's Auxiliary

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Cory Gets a Little Dinghy

I ordered an Eastport Pram kit from Chesapeake Light Craft in March 2002. Unfortunately an auto accident interrupted my life for several months. I started construction in July.

The kit as shipped. (Minus the second box containing epoxy, fiberglass, etc.)

"Stitching" the panels together with copper wire.

Gluing panels with epoxy.

The assembled hull.

Fiberglassing the floorpanel.

Bulkheads in place; adding the starboard outwale. (You can never have too many clamps!)

The first coat of epoxy on the outside of the hull. Still to come: another epoxy coat, at least one primer coat, and probably two coats of white one-part marine polyurethane. Almost seems a shame to paint her, but I think I will, for safety's sake and because the fillets of epoxy aren't so appealing.

Two coats of epoxy on the outside. Time to do the inside while the outside hardens fully.

Two coats of epoxy on the inside. It's all over but the sandin'... and the primer, and the paint, and the varnish... .

The first coat of Interlux "Brightsides" one-part linear polyurethane. No, it's not wet in the picture. This paint rocks! (For $25/quart, it'd better!)