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I'm currently working on rebuilding one of the original 10, 1562 Loomis GLX prototype blanks (my 6th to date), and I've been playing with a new resin medium that has had me see numerous failures on the grip wood inserts. The frustrations have been incredibly frustrating to say the least, the learning is as of yet, not perfected, but I am making progress. This is a series of pictures showing the rear grip from failure to success. This was the first finished attempt that shows many air in inclusions in the finish. The results were clearly a failure so I started again by removing the finish. Then I started again with a new perspective and slower more methodical application method.

Dont overlook the idea of repowering a hull. Hulls on good manufacturer's boats dont really go "bad" much these days. Plus if youre handy at all, a lot can be done to make things like new again, seats, carpet, electronics etc can all be modernized fairly easily. Im running a 19 year old hull with a 2024 motor...the $80,000 that manufacturers are seemingly valuing their hulls at, the math aint mathin...at least not to me.