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Flipped her back right side up last night and now I'm putting in all kinds of fun shiny bits!  The only permanent brass so far are the stembands and the boweyes.  Boweyes turned out to be an elegant solution.  I needed a painter attachment point and a towing/trailering eye and they couldn't be in the same place.  So I decided that I would place the towing eye in the traditional spot (relatively lower than the stemhead) but use a boweye with an eye on each end.  After a lot of scrounging around on the interwebs, I found just the right part at Greenboatstuff.com.  They call it a Stanchion eyebolt/tensioner, but it's exactly the right size for a peapod boweye and painter attachment point.  Here's what it looks like epoxied in the boat, along with other brass pretties just set into their hypothetical places.  The painter will run up through that doughnut shaped fairlead in the deck.

Not sure about the cleats yet.  Might be overkill...






Had to swap for 2 1/4" oarlocks. 


This is the part (stanchion eyebolt/tensioner)-

looks great! and you can never have to many cleats

You can purchase "eye nuts" which is what those appear to be, with a length of all thread between. Available in stainless, mild steel, galvanized and bronze.

Thanks Bob!

Paul:  Yep, my problem was that I somehow decided on brass at some point in this build.  Don't know when it was, it just kinda happened. I basically locked myself out of saltwater though.

  I ended up ordering some Seadog brand stainless eyenuts by accident.  Guess those will go on the next boat!

Here's some better shots of the eyenuts/bolts in place.  Still need to dress those stembands.

Outside


Inside


Inside better perspective

Grind the sides of the eye nut, so it doesn't stick out past the brass rub strip. It looks better this way and you'll have plenty of meat left. Sand smooth with progressively finer grits, then polish up, like nothing happened. Maybe a little shape worked in, such as rounded edges and a slight taper.

The Super Secret Pre-Launch Launch!  (I have never actually never rowed a boat before, and thought it might be a good idea to practice...)  Anyway, here is a neat video of my friend James (he's in a couple of the build/moving shots) rowing the Peapod Badger.  I am amazed at how smooth and fast this boat is when someone who knows what they're doing is rowing.  When I'm rowing, we tend to make big circles. 

Click the HD icon, then the rounded square icon beside it to view in full screen high definition.

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Rub rails on!  Still need trimming, and I might round off the ends.  Not happy with the trailer right now.  I think that I'll install long bunks to replace the floppy ones they include from Northern Tool.  Otherwise, the trailer works well.

Move the axle as far forward as you can on that trailer, you'll balance better and you'll require less immersion to get the boat off at the ramp.

Wish I could.  The whole contraption is fixed in that arrangement.  Versatility is apparently an option for a pricier model than mine. 

Fortunately, she can be portaged by two.  That's what I've done so far. 

Can you knock off the ears holding the springs and weld them  farther forward? Usually the springs are on a piece of angle stock. Better trailers bolt this angle to the frame, but some weld them. Typically, you'd grind off the welds, slide the angle forward and either through bolt it or weld it in the new location.