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thats a lot of small pieces of teak woven into a beautiful boat...what did you use for glue?.....its amazing what endless patience and uncompromising attention to detail can accomplish...........great job
That's incredible! 20,000 hours That should be on display somewhere, I too would be afraid to put it in the water. Unbelievable work!
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Speechless- I feel small. I love working with wood and this boat makes me want to give all my tools away and be a worm farmer. Stunning! A sick joke would be to hang a FICHT off the transom, and bolt the oil resivoir on top of the deck. You are a master craftsman and a visionary- great job!
That is perhap's the finest project boat i have ever seen, i know your a businessman but i would not sell that boat........that is art and craft'smanship along with a lot of human spirit...pretty hard to put a price on that...
I have to agree. That is a VERY stunning piece of craftmanship. You and the team should be more than proud of teh project. (and I love the KMA reply to the marine "architect")
The bow:
Edit: I just noticed how on bottom right of pics two pieces had different colors, and quickly ran to the boat to check again. They are same color. Just the grain reacts differently to the flash.
But it is true also that some places, where some timber are cut round shape, the grains shows a different color from one end to the other. But well, that is timber...
The stern:
This is a shot of the stern which shows the little sheer around the splash well:
The inner side of the windscreen:
The flooring support and ribs:
Note that the ribs are teak laminations (about 5 stripes). Sorry for the dust on the pic.
Nice. You'd better get a good Saigon seamstress to make a cover for it before you put it outside.
You're lucky as well, here in the US we can't buy teak of the quality you've got there. Word is the good stuff is picked out before it gets into the container. The local distributer had 3 lifts of teak without a vertical grain piece in the bunch. Hundreds of boards.
Watch out for the CMD motors made in Italy. To relate it to you, it's kind of like Indonesian teak. They call it teak, but when you compare it with the stuff from Burma and Thailand, you know it ain't. Maybe a little Yanmar.
Hell with putting that in the livingroom,I want it in my bedroom!Supper nice work.You got to have more pictures as you start to build.I would like to see how you started to finish.Now,could you send me about 10,000 board foot of that teak?
14,824 working hours (sorry for stating 20,000, I was reported approximations);
5.1 m3 of teak lumbers. I think this has been under estimated ;
80 meters cloth;
112 kg of epoxy (all kinds added);
4,400 brass screws (all kinds);
4kg of PU lacquer.
and I skip sanding paper, balau,... etc.. and all my time spent there.
Re: Teak 20' speed boat wood work is finished 
That should be on display somewhere, I too would be afraid to put it in the water. Unbelievable work! 
That is some beautiful work. It left me speechless 
