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By McKenzieDriftBoat.com

First Timer: Starting my build

Started my build about a month ago. I'm building a 16ft Double ender with transom straight out of Fletchers book. With this plans and instructions out of the book and the great information in this forum, how could you not be successful.

Laid out the lines for the frames on an old piece of 3/4inch plywood and got started. I started making the frames out of 1 or better doug fir 2X4s at the local lumber yard. It wasn't too hard working around all the knots to get good looking frames. Just a little time consuming ripping them down to 1by and belt sanding, cus I don't have a planner.

Building this has been a lot of fun and wanted to start sharing on this forum for future builders and the expert advice. thanks

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Permalink Reply by Phillip Westendorf on February 16, 2015 at 7:57pm

Clay,

Must be nice, 60's in Feb. We've had minus degrees the last few days. Tough on the fingers while river fishing here, "brutal" is the word of the week.

Tight Lines,

Dorf

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Permalink Reply by Roscoe Van Ausdoll on February 26, 2015 at 6:01am

Clay,

Great job on the Drift Boat, it really looks great. I'm new to the site and just getting started building two Don Hill 17 FF boats. Your conical of your assembly answered a lot of questions!! But I'm sure I will have more...Again Tahnks! Ill start posting pictures as soon as we get started breaking ground so to speak

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Permalink Reply by Clay W. on February 26, 2015 at 10:44am

Hey thanks, glad it can help someone. Some other post that really helped me is Guy Fredrickson's build and Dorfs. The two are really good examples and I'm sure you will see them sometime in your build if you haven't already. Have fun building the 2 and the people on this site can answer any question you might have.

Clay