I'm going to be doing my hatch lids and frames, and maybe my decking (depending on how the Core Cell supply holds out) in 3/8" marine ply and Port Orford Cedar. Mainly b/c I can't imaging making, glassing, and fitting all of the small parts in foam core. Plus there are some concerns of durability of various attachments into glassed foam, such as hinges, latches, and footman loops. I also recall from a private conversation with Mark, who built an all Core Cell boat, that if he were to do it over, he'd do the same.
The goal is a waterproof hatch, although I'm told that no method is 100% and some water will get in.
Top pic of a gunwale on his Briggs boat.
Maybe my favorite acccesory. Found this inside a hatch lid on his wife's Briggs.
Nice seat cover from Flagstaff River Equipment (Wet Dreams).
Leaving Andy's I took a different route home.
First, the appetizer of a cruise up the upper Dolores valley. Looks like lots of fun 2's and maybe a few 3's, at higher water. Little does this water know that it is destined to a different fate farther downstream, perhaps doubtful to ever again float a dory, or maybe any boat, below McPhee dam, drying up what was once possibly my favorite trip ever in a kayak. Great float and camping, pretty much mellow with a little rise in the heart rate at Snaggletooth. It seems the water is now consigned for better things in some people's opinion, such as irrigation for winter wheat, alfalfa, hay and pinto beans in the River of Sorrows valley. Crops we pay farmers back east not to grow.
I've considered naming my boat the Dolores, honoring the GCD tradition of recognizing ruined or lost places. No better candidate than this one. But Andy tells me there are already at least 4 out there. No matter, it's still near the top of the list.
All in all a good day. A very good day.
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