great thread. I’m envious of your build, and ready to start mine.
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Mullet -Shepard
When i see these builds being posted I think of Hannibal of the A-Team saying, “ I love it when a plan comes together “. Thank you so much along with the all the other builders that are sharing your experiences building with the world. It’s very humbling for me to see my ideas come together with each builders own interpretations of how to improve and make the process their own.
It’s no easy feat to build a skiff in a garage with all your neighbors getting a peek or hearing your build moving along. Also it takes good relationship skills to keep the home life happy along with what is essentially an invasion of new smells, noise, dust control and time spent away from loved ones.
Rachel my wife has been great through my many builds but draws the line with me not changing out of my work clothes when entering our house.
Your build show cases your attention to detail, refinement of the build process. If building skiffs to earn a wage then the builder will start to think of ways to get things done more efficiently, you will use commonsense to say “ this is nice enough here”. When I started out building one off skiffs for sale in my Florida keys shop I could build 4 skiffs in a years time with me always refining the process so by the time of my 8-9 build I could build a skiff in under 3 months time.
Watching you, Seth, Travis, and all the many others now that are part of the Hogfish Designs family of skiff builds you all need to know that once your build is finished you all are part of a rare group that can say you built a skiff from paper to slime. Well done. Thank you
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These builds are such an inspiration. Well the whole forum is incredible. But seeing what regular guys do on their own to enable pursuing a lifestyle doing what they love in a craft they built with their own two hands, will not get that on any other site at all. Sweet. Thanks for presenting this build progression, and to the conspirators who put this whole forum together.
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Unless something changed, the trick is to add text between the five photos and then you should be able to add more
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Thanks for the kind words Chris! I’m just taking my time, enjoying the process, and learning little things every day, figuring stuff out and conquering challenges as I go. The work itself is what I truly enjoy, I’m not sure how I’ll feel when it’s all done and I don’t have it to tinker with anymore. My wife has actually been really supportive of the whole process, I’m blessed to have someone who loves the whole me (even the crazy parts) but dont ask her to get paint or fiberglass dust on her! haha
Really appreciate everything you’ve done for this industry and for us crazy hobbyists, it’s awesome to be part of it. Now I just need to get this one finished!
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Got the 545 primer on! Put down two coats with plenty of cure time in between. Then I came back with 3M glazing putty and filled in all the little tiny holes that started to pop now that everything is mostly the same color.
Next up: I’ll be glassing the center console into the cockpit, and fairing that in, putting down more primer, and sanding the whole thing to get it ready for topcoat.
Life’s going to keep me from working on it for the next couple of weeks, so I’m looking forward to getting back at it at the end of the month. Thanks to everyone following along!
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Awesome stuff! My wife is similar!!
Thanks for posting all these pics!
Bart
That could be a prerequisite before marriage, can our relationship still thrive while I build a freaking boat in the garage most weekends haha.
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Hahahah. Totally.
Thankfully mines the same way. It generally costs me in other ways though, usually in the form of home projects, but with 20+ years behind us, it seems to work.
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Looking good @Mullet_Shepherd You’ll enjoy the process even more when you’re tight on a fish that you spotted and hooked up.
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Looking awesome
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Nice!!
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Dude that thing is looking sweet!
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Great work!! Thanks for all the pictures!!
Bart
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Looking great. Next time I’m at my daughter’s , I will walk over and see it. My last visit to her was hectic.
What can I say that others haven’t, nice fillets around the center console base. 
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What type of power are you putting on her?
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Do it.