Best way to start a boat project is to study and make drawings of the original Mrs. JAGRAF/X skippers HEIDI on Mission Bay Pit stop for NORMAN -- Dragon Number One Super Thunderbird Project Cal Star Radio Boat Basin Retriever Craft BARNE:Y GOOGLE The styrofoam ORION is covered with shop paper and rip-stop nylon ORION tank tested with 4.7 pounds ballast Hand-carved runabout speedboats by Harold F. Jagodinski Hand-carved MILADY II by Harold F. Jagodinski More examples of early JAGRAF/X work here: \ Cal Star Radio Boat SURF RIDER http://www.airjagrafx.blogspot.com/ Automobile posters at this link -- click once. More JAGRAF/X arts and craft projects HERE