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Hull parts from Andy in Northern California

After a 1.5-day nearly non-stop run down to the Eureka, CA area, I have a hull, sponson covers and foredeck! 

Everything bu the foredeck will be turned in to plugs and a mold will be cast from them.  I plan to work with the engineering people at Alcan and the folks at Fiberlay here in Seattle to plan out the PVC foam core sandwich that I'll eventually pull from this mold.

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Here are the 4 major hull parts as they arrived at the Seattle Cootery after a 17-hour driving day. 

Note that the gelcoated foredeck is from a different "mold pull." 

Andy decided to use the the one that came with the hull and sponson covers for his existing project as he preferred its instrument panel cutout.

A rough weigh-in indicates that this hull, by itself, comes in at just about 94 pounds.

Not quite all there:  Just as every skid mark on the highway has a story to tell, there must be one for this state of affairs.  The laminates just sort of stop short of the rudder post station.

If there ever was a Coot factory, this would clearly have been a "second"

I will need to dredge up my very rusty boat building experience and dust off my bonded structures training if I'm going to make convincing job bring this up to airworthy and seaworthy standards

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The starboard side.  Similar to the photo above.  The layup crew just lost interest in this one, I guess.

Completing the walk around:  the port side is no better than its opposite!

Road rash:  Everything rode great until the last 40 miles from Tacoma to Seattle.  The worst stretch of highway on the whole run!  The pounding finally took its toll on the port-side sponson leading edge.  This, at least, I know I can fix.