RE: Dumas Eagle Build
Here's some photos of mine. It's not completely painted yet, just pretty much two coats of epoxy paint and has let me see what the paint wasn't going to take care of, so there's still places I need to fill and sand, and the stuffing tube isn't installed yet which isn't a big deal to add before the last coat. I didnt want it in the way when I was leveling the bottom.
I got rid of the Dumas idea about the plastic flapper drain, and just made it a "wet" hull with drain holes and an open drain pan. Everything else was built like the directions, even including gluing in the tanks, big mistake..but oh whell...it was my first build before I started learning mistakes like that.
I removed 1/8" from the bottom of the air traps and replaced them with hardwood strips for wear protection and sharpness. Filling the open end-grained ply didn't thrill me as far as a quality outcome and durability.
I added brass inserts for solid machine threads for the turn fin bracket, radio box hold down blocks, and also for a brass bulkhead fitting for the water intlet to the transom.