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Comment by lhedrick on June 23, 2010 at 7:40am

Skip,

A friend and I both have stitch and glue boats build from Sandy's plans over on montana-riverboats.com.

I doubt you will see or feel any difference in the finished boat other than it's lack of frames and floor boards. My boat is almost 10 years old. It started as an open fishing boat and was later decked over to run bigger water. With the decks it's not as good as a pure fishing platform any longer. Last year I built another one. The new boat is a stretched version of the Honky dory. It's about 16 foot. The process of adding 2 feet is easy to do. Both are for sale if you don't have time to build.

The main difference with the Honky dory design is that it has a 56 inch bottom and the hull is built from 4 sheets of 4X8 plywood with almost no waste.

The plans call for 3/8 plywood on the bottom which is a bit light if it's going to take a beating. 1/2 inch, 3/8 with kevlar or 3/4 inch honeycomb will beef it up.

It's an easy boat to build, just takes some time.

L

Comment by eric stevens on June 21, 2010 at 12:42pm

If you are wanting to build from planns, montana riverboats has good online plans , i am building the honky dory right now and it is very simple. They have their own forum that is mainly stich and glue so you can get lots of help if you need it.