My wife riding in the back of a 14' runabout This is working out well so far and my waste has been minimal. I would go behind her and fasten the components together. I estimated how much to mix and did the mixing and the wife did the spreading. We typically set up three stations during the frame glue-ups: 1) a new frame set up on the layout board 2) 2nd set of gussets installed on the previous days' frame 3) plywood component glue up. It is important to plan each session of epoxy work to minimize wasting this expensive material. Once dry, (I waited until the next day) I flipped the frame over and added the other two gussets. I repeated the process for each set of gussets since they were not identical from frame to frame.The frame pieces were set on my layout board, tacked in place with my brad nailer, and gussets epoxied at the joints by my wife, granddaughter, and I. I stacked (4) layers of ply and cut them all at once using the bandsaw and sander so that they are identical. I cut out gussets for the frames from 3/8" marine grade Douglas Fir ply. With the ply and lumber needed for the project in my shop, I now have what I need to build the hull. The personal introductions would have to wait for another time. Fortunately, a friend of his was able to give me access to my portion of the plywood order and he gave us the 10 cent tour of the dairy farm. As luck would have it, my contact forgot that I was going to his place to pick up the ply. It would also be educational to see a working dairy farm. I was looking forward to finally getting the ply, but I was also excited about meeting the fellow builder whom I only talked to on the phone up to this point. The granddaughter and I borrowed a full sized pickup truck and headed out to the dairy farm to pick up 20 sheets of plywood. We called in our orders separately and had Homestead combine the two orders into one shipment which was going to his dairy farm. We received a better quantity discount and saved money on the shipping. We decided to go with a supplier from my former home state of Ohio - Homestead Hardwoods. A little reading on the Glen-L forums gave us a couple of out of state options that fellow builders seemed to be satisfied with. He thought that was a great idea but we still had the problem of locating a supplier. I've been conversing with a fellow Malahini builder who lives about 1.5 hours away from me and I asked him to combine our plywood orders to get a quantity discount.
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