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Daughter's Birthday wish
Thought I'd share something nice: for her tenth birthday, my daughter asked to "build a kid-sized rowboat with daddy." Notwithstanding that we have a pram I made a while back, I'm goin' for it. I have a bunch of nice designs bookmarked, all in the 9-10 foot range. But best of all, there's a free program called HULL, which allows you to design almost anything you want.
http://www.carlsondesign.com/#Fun_Shareware along with the tutorial below, you'll see all the cool stuff you can do with it: http://home.clara.net/gmatkin/hullstut.htm In addition to a couple hundred hull designs, you can plot ballast, load, check out waterline as you change load, plot pieces out on plywood, do 3-D modeling, get offsets for lofting, and a bunch of other stuff. Best of all, I'm looking forward to the project with my girl. I'll try to post photos of the progress. I have two boys, 12 and 5, and the little one is good with his hands, but mostly too young, yet. The older one ain't interested in all the tools. The girl, though, she likes making things. You might say she's the boy I always wanted.
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1974 V-20 w/1996 OMC 115; 3 sailboats, 2 rowboats people who are competent are worth the oil it will take to fry them in hell. 
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Bravo!!!! That will be time well spent.
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*************************************** Stay Safe!  Sold - 1984 V-20 Cuddy with a 2003 Johnson 140 hp gas sippin 4-stroke. 1995 Ranger 250C with a 2015 Suzuki 300 hp 4-stroke.
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