The painting of the craft. I highly recommend priming yours, I used an industrial alkyd paint and I said before I built it my way not necessarily the right way.

I have operated on water quite a few times with no water damage though. If you look closely you'll see the skid plates mounted underneath as well.

And the skirt is on, have someone with a heavy duty machine do the stitching for you. I used my friends home one and it took forever.

How to attach the skirt. Screw through two layers of skirt with 5/16 nylon cord between.

Darren