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Drift boat building in the foyer
fect for garage projects like boat building
and car restoration. They are less than
“ideal,” however, if you want a perfect ep-
oxy finish for your boat and your garage is
unheated.
After failed attempts at space heaters and pa-
tience (waiting for a four day warm front in
January), I had to improvise. My wife gra-
ciously let me move my boat building in-
doors to a perfect 72°F, dust-free, climate
controlled environment. The W
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Epoxy set up great in our front entry way
and produced just the finish I was after for
my 16' McKenzie Style Drift Boat.
Moving the shop indoors was not without
precedence; the winter before, I restored an
FJ40 Land Cruiser that required warming up
parts in the kitchen before I could paint
them.
I married a saint.
Greg Hatten—Eugene, Oregon
Hull side panels (above)
curing in the comfort of
Hatten’s warm and cozy
foyer.
The drift boat is close to
completion in the nor-
mal setting for boat
building (left).
The McKenzie style drift boat is designed for maneu-
verability and is especially suited to get you down
wild rivers (above) and not-so-wild rivers (right) to
where the fish are.
EPOXYWORKS Number 29, Fall 2009
©2009 Gougeon Brothers, Inc. All rights reserved.
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he wet winter months in Oregon are per-
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