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Filled in the bond line lines, and finished off the rear chop. Getting somewhere finally. It’s amazing how rock solid the micro balloons / epoxy sets up. I mixed until it was runny then poured / let soak into the seam (about 28 grams of mixed resin per side) then followed it up with with the...

Looking to buy a rn umi handpole. Really looking for something around -2” from stock. More complete the better. PM me what you have, thanks

Definitely good points Req. I think for this build I’m going to leave it un-rockered and try it -3 to see what happens. I can always chop it up more next fall to really make it pop. From my measurements, the 155 pump I have has the reduction nozzle with 2.5 ish degrees of trim in it, so that’ll...

Still plugging away, work and other projects are eating up free time, but it should be on the water by this summer

I was tempted to rocker it with wedges seeing the nose already needs work, I just don't want it to porpoise real bad in the chop I ride in. I ride Lake Michigan and chase boat wakes, not sure if a rockered superjet would be any worse than my 550 or I'd just have to get used to it haha. What kind...

Adding additional layers to the pump tunnel. I'll be using resin/micro balloons to shape the inside of the tunnel and guarantee a smooth flow

Started glassing it in

I definitely went about it the total wrong way lol way too much work, but lesson learned. CarterB's tunnel would have been money well spent! The pump tunnel symmetry I'm just measuring a lot and hoping for the best honestly. If I did it again I would have covered the 144 tunnel with duct tape...

Glassed in the pump tunnel. I'm sure there's easier ways to do this, but oh well. Will use epoxy and micro balloons to smooth everything out once it's all glassed in

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Chopped up the pump tunnel to fit the WB2 shoe. Will be widening it next

I picked up 2 hoods (to make 1 good one), a pole bracket, turn plate, exhaust tube and a tank. I acquired a pole that is missing the bottom riveted bracket, so if anyone has a junk pole they'd sell or that bracket, I'd be interested!

Ground all the ribs out and all the deck seam glue out in prep for reinforcement and reglassing

The donor, it actually ran alright on the trailer, but pulling it down I found the top ring completely missing in one of the cylinders : O I'll be overboring the sleeves 1mm and that'll clean most of the crap up, not fully, but a lot better. Further down the road I'll be building a bigger...

Cutting the tray/defoam and routing out all the cracks

I'm nick-naming this build the Colander Build because this hull has so many cracks it must have leaked like a colander before I picked it up. This is my first Superjet (and my first post) I bought a bare RN hull with literally nothing on it as a candidate to be pieced back together and turned...