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Old 08-11-2011 | 12:41 PM
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Default Re-Engineering A Dumas Pay'N Pak

After several weeks of urging by other members of both this and another forum, I finally gave in and ordered a Dumas 20 sized Pay'N Pak kit and, rather than build it, decided to use it as the basis for a totally redesigned boat using nothing from the kit in the build. Upon opening the box, I found the usual Dumas garbage die cut 1/8 mahogany framing and the 1/16" birch skin. Unlike most of what I've bought from Dumas years ago, it was all surprisingly flat. I punched out the framing from the supplied sheets and went to work dry fitting the frames. Needless to say, I found little changed from when I built this boat back in 1982 except for the addition of 1/8" glue blocks added to the inside of the sponson insides. I decided right then that there was no way to make this into a boat that would meet my requirements so I began remanufacturing and reworking the parts into what I felt was going to be a much better boat. I've attached a picture of the dry fitted frame so you all would know what I started with
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