The deck work is looking great! I'll be tearing into my deck in a month or so if all goes to plan.

Stringers and bulkheads are completed.

Where and when do these races go down?

Wow, summer sure has a way of sucking up project time. Side jobs and such kept me away from the boat for another three week period, but spending a few days on the lake reminds me why I'm doing all this work. Any way, some more progress has been made since my last post. Center stringers are completed...

Quick update. The month of May was pretty crazy for me, so not much was completed on the boat. Progress is underway agin. I have the stringers pretty much finished at this point. I mocked up the footwell and forward floor and stringer. Also got the floor roughly fitted.

https://www.mcmaster.com can very a great source for a wide variety of items.

The last one listed states it has Sea Star steering. If it has a full seastar pro steering set up (helm, ram, hoses) that can be $1,500 by itself. Food for thought, considering all will need a core. Adam made a great post with excellent info! A few more things to consider. -You can't go out and buy ...

I've been digging for a while to try and come up with large SQUARE metal flake like the factory laid. I'm planning to re gell my entire hull in the blue streak color scheme it came in originally. I'm hoping to make this thing look factory new. Anyway, here's some of what I've come up with so far. Us...

That turned out great! I just discovered the blue/white 2.5 decals a few weeks ago. That should look great on your Vking.

It's good to see nice clean work. Looks like you might have done this a time or two. You may already know this but worth mentioning. You might consider thinning slightly some resin and coating the plywood. WE call it "priming" the wood. This does two things. 1. It soaks into the wood fibe...