Pete, just curious, what makes the WR 164 the "hybrid boat from hell"? I am currently building the WR 162.

Nice compass mount idea, I think I'll do the same. -Will
> Once the platform was securely tacked into place, I cut an 8- or 9” circle
> of glass cloth and draped it over the platform (this is with the boat
> upside down, of course), and epoxied it. The black dots are my markers for
> cutting. With the platform touching the deck like this, it isn’t hard to
> make the glass lay down tight to the wood while bridging the open gaps on
> the front and rear.

> When the epoxy sets up, the now-rigid fiberglass made a good form for
> filling the sidewalls with very thickened epoxy. I added ground up chimney
> scrapings to get the dark color; it’s just decorative filler, after all,
> not structural.

> That’s about it. I used a tongue depressor to make the fillet radius at
> the bottom of the sidewalls. You want to be sure there’s enough room for
> the compass base to fit.

> Right now, I’m putting one in the CLC West River 164, a.k.a. the Hybrid
> Boat From Hell. The foredeck doesn’t have the same deep cut as the Coho,
> so instead of having the platform touching the underside of the deck, I
> used two small wood blocks tacked with hot glue to space it about *” down.
> It would have taken a much bigger platform to do it the same way as the
> Coho (that is, touching the deck), and I wanted to keep it small if I
> could. The resulting sidewalls are quite a bit bigger, so I’ve laid in an
> undercoat of epoxy thickened with microballoons as well as wood flour.
> I’ll put a darker-colored topcoat on it to finish it out.