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The Cozy Boat finally needed a new skin.Seagull poop ate holes in the cotton denim skin. Then the seagulls pecked at the holes to see if it had tasty ...
Here's what the old skin looked like. It lasted a few years, but the seagulls were wrecking it. Peel it off, exposing the closed-cell foam layer under...
Chloe uses an electric turkey knife to cut the hole cleanly into a spear shape. Then she cuts a piece of foam to match the hole and glues it in using ...
The foam at the stems had separated. I guess I didn't make the foam layer big enough. We added a gore of thick foam, then Ray measured and cut a thin ...
I scavenged some gym floor covers from MIT to make the boat skin. Ray and Chloe hold it up to the sun to check it for holes. Looks like some revellers...
We used HH-66 adhesive and solvent from Mauritzonon to patch the tarp. We cut round patches, cleaned them and the area around the hole with the solven...
This was hard to figure out. The old skin seen here had stretched to fit the boat perfectly. It was hard to see how to cut the new skin so it would be...
We had plenty of cord to lash the skin on with, but we needed to know if it was Nylon or polyester. Nylon elongates about 10% when it gets wet, and t...
At the stems we cut the skins to fit, cleaned the edges with solvent, and painted the HH66 cement on. When it was dry enough we pressed them together....
At the end of the seam there was no overlap, so we cut a strip of tarp and glued that over the whole seam for extra wear resistance. It was hard to ge...
We carried the whole shebang indoors to use the best sewing machine in the world, a "unicorn" from Korea. We sewed a hem all around the edge. We put a...
The skin gets tied directlly to the headboards at the stems. Ray and Chloe use a piece of doubled-over wire to pull the lacing string through holes po...
The innertube lashings that held the frame together were starting to fall apart. We redid a few using polyester string. That's the bright lime green l...
Just like that it was done and time to put it in the water. The skin is still pretty wrinkly around the edges, but it's nice and smooth on the bottom ...
I took the Cozy Boat to Maker Faire. Kids loved it. The swarmed all over it playing pirate, looking for seamonsters, rocking it back and forth. It's a...
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