Arghh!! Man down! Ok this has nothing to do with the skiff but I broke an axle on my main cart and gotta fix that before carrying on with the project. Below you can see I ground and broke off the old wheel mounts.

Below, with the new wheel mounts clamped in place and a new wheel slid over the bolt I layed a square on the cart frame and used it to gauge the wheel straightness (to the frame). I used these wheels before but they fell apart because I got hubs for 12 gauge spokes and the spokes were too expensive, so I was inadvertently using 14g spokes with them. Pops the heads right off them. Just got these new 14g hubs from bikepartsusa.com, they have 5/8" id bearings in them and instead of bushing them down to 1/2" as usual I used 5/8" bolts for the axles. Bet they won't break now!

Slide the wheel off and blast 'er on.

Then do the other side. It's hard to see in the pics but I tightened one side of the wheel spokes before the other side to "dish" the wheel a bit, gave it an offset. On the outside, if sighting along the tire the hub sticks out about 1/4" and on the inside about 3/4". It's nicer as it gets the tire away from the frame a bit more and yet makes for a narrower profile as I used shorter axles. The old way was to just use a longer axle and shim the wheel out away from the frame with washers.

I didn't need those huge nuts just to keep the wheel from falling off so I jammed two on the bolt and sawed one in half, I'll use lots of lock tight to keep them from loosening up.

Slide the wheel back on then put the nut on and mark the thread with a file and cut off the excess bolt. Dress up the end with the file and a thread file so the nut goes on.

Blast Crap and Dang! I broke the blade in the porta-band and had to finish sawing off the other axle with the hacksaw.

I'm glad that's over with and fixed, should be good for another 10 years or so. Now back to the boat-

I painted the inside with Bondo polyester resin. I was thinking of epoxy primer but it's about $200 gallon at the local auto paint shop!

Primered over the resin and primered the ribs and when they were good and dry started gluing them in with Liquid Nails.

I did err though, I shouldn't have put that primer over the resin. It's lifting off at spots under the ribs due to the Herculean strength of Liquid Nails! I'll have to go around and secure through the outside with screws just to keep all the ribs in place. Doh!