I am building a drift boat and have decided on a using paint rather than a varnish finish.  I need a durable finish and am leaning toward a two part epoxy rather than a one part product.  The cost of a two part is double the cost of a single part.  Is it two times better?  Also some comments on experience with brands and products would be helpful.

My latest boat is the 16' Nez Perce skiff designed by Ken Swan. I made some additions to the basic skiff as you can see in the attached photos.
 
I built the George Calkins 19' Bartender which is now owned by my daughter. A photo of it appeared in the Launching section of WoodenBoat Magazine... "Google" my name and a source will pop up.
 

Welcome.  The following set of pictures and text detail the construction of a weekender.

Here are two shots of the finished boat for reference as the construction pictures unfold.

Well I have been hard at it again and have been working at a steady pace.  I don't have any recent photos, but will add some soon.

I was dead set on a center console at first, but have since decided to build a dual console helm.

The reasons were that I might want to use the boat for some basic cruising aside from fishing and wanted myself and the 1st passenger to be comfortable. 

 I am designing the consoles and windsheild based on the Alumaweld Talon series.  I really like the near vertical look of the windsheild on that boat.

Hello woodenboatbloggers, 

     I'm new to this site so bear with me while I try to figure things out. I'm writing because I want to learn more about the  sweet dinghy  I bought it a few days ago.  . It is plywood lapstrake boat, fastened with copper nails, approximately 47" wide by 8'6. It was built on Vashon Island in Puget Sound.   No makers mark that I can see. Does any one have a name for the style or recognize who might have built it?  

May 2008

We finally got the Little Willie in the water. It floated. Now we are waiting on the Wildlife and fisheries to inspect it and give us a hull ID number. By the time all the paper work is received it will be to hot too get on the river. And so it goes.

The hull is 18 feet 1 inch long and 5 feet 1 inch wide and has a squat, classic whale boat type shape.  Topsides to keel is no more than 22 to 23 inches.  The center board should not draw more than 2 feet and is ballasted internally with cement set around the centerboard slot.  All internal bulkheads and seats are wood coated with glass.  The hull may be wood covered with glass or just glass.Mast stay rigging is still attached to the topsides and a modern swivle main sheet cleat is still attached to a center cross- beam.The boat has dimensions similar to a Rhodes marlin, but it is not a

The winter coat is coming off an its time for the project to resume!!!!

Too much has gotten in the way of this project, but I am going to resume this weekend.  I am curious to see how the Tap Plastics epoxy has held up.

I purchased 3 sheet of okume for the decking.  Don't know how it will hold up,but it looked far better than the ACX.

Photos soon!

Another year has gone by and we are still not in the water.

Had a few days of good weather and got to work on the inside; put the paneling on the over head and walls..

Today it is cold and rainey so can't get anything done.

As part of the renovation of the leut, we have to learn new Croatian words specific to the boat:

brod - boat

trup - hull

gaz - draught

skladište - hold

grotlo - hatch

kaljuža - bilge

kobilica - keel

platica - plank

šuperenje - caulking

paklina - pitch

?avli - nail

vijci - screw