28 GA in Pagosa Springs colorado

[Rbob]

Djeffrey,

You are doing a fabulous job, and raising the bar at the same time.

Love what you are doing.

[Djeffrey]

New winter project. DIY bow rail.

[json]

That's cool... How solid does that feel? Feel like you could lean into it while you are fishing or pulling an anchor or such? I have considered the DIY for my bow rail but am a bit unsure because I don't want to take an inadvertent swim by myself accidentally...

[Rbob]

Looks great, looks abut 2 ft tall from here.  Just enough to keep you in the boat.  Awesome..

[Djeffrey]

28 inches.. solid

[Grady300]

Sweet! Looks great!

[Djeffrey]

Once you have soft sand on part of your deck, you want it everywhere.

[Grady300]

do you like the soft sand better for decks than the bed liner? Trying to decide what to put on my cockpit deck.

[ghelland]

If you choose bed liner, I used Rapter brand and it has not turned to chalk like other brands I used in the past.  I think testing the grip of each would be extremely important.   

[Djeffrey]

I too used Raptor on my back deck. I like how tuff it is. The soft sand is fairly tuff as well. The thing I love about soft sand is how it removes any slip on the deck. Bedliner can still be slippery when wet. I found on our last trip that stepping from soft sand to deck without soft sand was a little slippery when wet. Cool thing about bedliner is if later you decide to soft sand it with paint it is paintable.

[Brian.Dixon]

I too used Raptor on my back deck. I like how tuff it is. The soft sand is fairly tuff as well. The thing I love about soft sand is how it removes any slip on the deck. Bedliner can still be slippery when wet. I found on our last trip that stepping from soft sand to deck without soft sand was a little slippery when wet. Cool thing about bedliner is if later you decide to soft sand it with paint it is paintable.

Reminds me of the time a friend washed out the inside of his boat with soapy dish soap water and didn't rinse well enough ... a few hours later in big seas and a constant drizzle, nobody in the boat could stay standing up.  Lots of bashed shins, 4-letter words, bruises, and a busted fishing rod ... guess who got grilled on how well the boat WAS rinsed out before every trip after that?

[Djeffrey]

In building the boat I’ve had this concern about whether my transom will hold up over time. Since I built a swim platform and varied from Brian’s plans. I’ve pondered several mechanical fasteners and decided on this. I took a couple pieces of stainless all thread and connected the transom to the rear bulkhead. I slipped it through a nice piece polished stainless pipe to dress it up.

[sprig1]

Your boat just keeps getting better and better. Congratulations!!! I hope you are enjoying the summer. My question is we’re are you mounting your kicker?

[Djeffrey]

I’m out of town right now but wil post a pic when I get home of the kicker mounted

[sprig1]

Thanks so much! Enjoy your trip