Chuck's Boat

My Dad’s good friend Chuck has been building a sailboat for the past 3 1/2 years. The boat is 21 feet long and 7 feet wide. It is made mostly of 3/8 inch exterior plywood and southern yellow pine. The exterior of the hull is covered in 8 ounce fiberglass cloth and epoxy resin. All the hull and motor well seams, angles and edges are double or triple layered in glass cloth. The boat is painted with Lowe’s premium quality acrylic exterior house paint. It will be powered with a 60 horse 2 strokes Mercury outboard. The engine will be installed in a motor well 3 feet forward of the transom.

The boat building process got to a stand still because it needed to be taken off of the frame that it was built on and loaded onto the trailer. So in June (I am a little late posting) Keith and I, my dad and Chuck’s neighbor Andrew came to the rescue. Keith and I got there a little late but I took pictures and Keith helped as needed.

It is so neat knowing great people who are talented with their hands. I hope that one day I will be thought of in this manner.

L to R Chuck, Andrew and Fred (my dad)