The Jenna Rose
 

I finally got the wife to help me finish my website on the building of our boat. I still have one more picture to add to it but it's about done. I need one more showing the name on the sides. It took about 16 months on and off to make it. Now I see they offer plans for a 14 foot planing boat that I would have chose over this one but I am happy with how it came out.

http://www.bmwoodworking.com/gv11.htm

there is the link if you are interested.

Thats awesome !

that was a great read. It came out great! I found my first project when I get my house :)

congrats!

Great job as usual Bruce.

Well said Ron, that is Awesome !!

bravo
 

Very nice. That is the orginal essense of boating.

The boat is perfect. I have seen in person and he did a beautiful job. P.

Bruce that's an awesome pictorial of the process.

When I was a freshman in high school, my school had a summer marine vocations program which was a boat building class taught by local builder. The class was 4 hours a day all summer long, but when you finished you had a boat. I built a 13' Sissy Do, which was basically a very wide flat bottomed work skiff that we modified a bit.

What a blast we had with that boat getting towed around by bluefish...

Thanks Bruce
 

That was nice...what a sweet little boat! Great job :hihi:

Wow, that boat is beautiful! Nicely done.

I'll trade you some plugs for a boat - if you want to build me one!

Bruce - really cool!!!! That is really over the top to build a boat so you can go fish the plugs you build!


I'm very impressed and enjoyed the website photos.

Ryan

that is really neat Bruce...nice photos...

I saw it once right after it was finished, Boat looked Great!!

Great Job!!

You're the man Bruce, nice work.:btu:

That is great Bruce, what a memory for you and your family, priceless

Bust the bottle of Bud on her bow and off ya go. Nice

Congrats...awesome and I bet really fulfilling, too....

don't forget the plug :)

thanks guys!

Awesome site, Slip :btu: Still gotta fine tune that 9.9 into a 15. :D

The pics of Danny and your Dad with fish are the finishing touches. :hihi:

Nice job Bruce and it catches too:hee:

slip
 

i love the jenna rose....great job man

its the exact wooden boat or close enough to it
that i grew up with in mattapoisett....

i used to paint it each year
and had many adventures
in that boat

i think the website was excellent...!!
a couple of questions please...
(sorry) don't know whatcha callem but the
strips (cleats) on the outside bottom edge.....
i didnt seem to see ->those go on ...and or how....

what did it cost just in materials (ball park)
and what does it weigh....?

That is incredible, great job! Awesome web page.

I dug this up, actually found it doing a search for my site bmwoodworking.com and this page was on page 6 of google

I figured maybe RMarsh may enjoy seeing the site too, as he is doing a FINE job on his C17

To answer your questions Raven, sorry it took so long , those are called spray rails, sorry no pics of their install. I took mahogany and made some 3/4" quarter round and glued them on with thickened epoxy, used predrilled for screws to hold in place, then later filled those holes after removing the screws.

cost was about 1200

it weighs about 120 lbs, so I guess it was 10 bucks a pound :D

I still enjoy the boat with Danny but we don't get out enough with it, it seems each year it takes fewer and fewer trips :(

Dave, I never did get it to 15 hp. , part way though, I just need to get that needle changed some day :)

You live right down the street from that lake, I loved fishing that lake when I lived in Middleboro.

Great job Bruce!!! Great team work!!!

Hey Bruce, great job!

What is really priceless is the pictures of your son and dad enjoying themselves so much!
Fantastic!

Nice work! Beautiful paint job on that hull too!
Your son will remember this boat for the rest of his life. (so will you and your dad) I can see the "love" in that boat! What great memories you created!

Slip,

Nice boat and good job putting that page together.

So you didn't put one layer of glass over the entire outside after taping and fairing the seams? What kind of epoxy did you use, west, system 3, mas?

Thanks!


yes there is cloth on the bottom beamie. I used system 3