Glen-L Flats Flyer Built by Jacob Kimbrough, Friendswood, Texas

Glen-L Flats Flyer Built by Jacob Kimbrough, Friendswood, Texas

Posted by jacoblkimbrough on Apr 8th 2014

The construction time was right around 480 hrs. The rigging was another 40 hours.

The whole boat does not contain a piece of wood. It is all composite foam core/fiberglass/carbon panels (proset epoxy/vacuum bagged). I stretched it to 19'9" LOA. The hull weighed in at 860lbs. I was pretty conservative in the amount of fiber I used as well as the core selections.

If I had to do it over again I could knock 100lbs out of the finished weight easily. I build high performance composite structures for a living.

I used my company facility at night and on the weekends for the build. All in all I did it over a 10 month span.

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ready for primer

ready for primer

near completion

near completion