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Poll Question: Have you ever home built a boat?
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    Posted: 14 Apr 13 at 6:47pm
I wish I had known that, I did think at the time that it would be heavy but didn't think of sugar.
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Originally posted by Reuben T

3. Mix sand with the paint to paint the cockpit, it gives you a professional looking grippy surface, and means you don't have to sand it either, its amazing what you can get away with.


We always preferred slapping on the paint then sprinkling sugar on top. Once the paint hardened you'd slop out with hot water that dissolves the sugar but leaves a grippy surface. Same result, but without carrying the weight of the sand around the race course.
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The three most important things for beginners that I have learnt from building a boat:

1.Buy a surform, it will reduce the amount of sanding you need to do to get a smooth finish, and wont rip big chunks out. A bit of light sanding afterwards will give you a good finish.

2.Use satin paint, not gloss. The light reflecting off gloss paint shows up every single imperfection. 

3. Mix sand with the paint to paint the cockpit, it gives you a professional looking grippy surface, and means you don't have to sand it either, its amazing what you can get away with.
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Built 2 Contenders from scratch (including a plug and cold moulding 2 shells), after first getting a young Ed Dubois to take a look at the lines...

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Originally posted by johnreekie1980

A Class 950 is a yacht.

What design? 
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I home-decked a Plycraft Fireball from a kit in 1970 during Uni spring holidays in a dampish garage.  That probably does not count as boat building.  Anyway impatience, inexperience and iffy varnish drying conditions led to a poor job as I heard it had to be reglued a couple of years later. I don't think I have the patience and skills ever to try it again, but I am full of admiration for those that have.
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I guessed that...

Just went and googled it - looks good.
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A Class 950 is a yacht.
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Whats a Class 950?

I've built flat bottomed canoes and sailing canoes, all small scale, playing with ideas for cheap and simple designs. The most used canoe is only 6.5 feet long, built for my daughter when she was 5. At nearly 11 she will soon have got too big for it, which is a shame. I expect she will demand a 7.5 foot one to replace it!

Rest of the boats have always been re-builds, which is a totally different game.
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I am building a Class 950 in a shed in the garden. it is early days though.
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