So I started a new project in December (2011). After fly fishing with my brother on the Wautuga river in Western NC, I got hooked on the idea of building a driftboat. I found some cool plans online and it looked easy enough, so I bought a set and started gathering materials. After browsing around, I liked the Glen-L website the best and found a lot of other people had posted pics/stories of their builds, so I chose a Glen-L Drifter 14 similar to the one below built by a fella named Mark from Montana.
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| Drifter 14 from Montana |
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| Drifter 14 from Alaska |
Once I purchased the plans, I found that I had to locate some fairly hard to find marine plywood. I found a place that sells Okume to build Yachts and went and got a bunch of sheets. Pricey stuff at $80/sht.
Apparently marine grade plywood has minimal voids between the ply, making it good for bending.
First thing is to build an internal 2x4 frame.
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