There were obviously a few things that the writer just pulled out of her hat. Those numbers are one of them. The other is "2 weeks to build a boat". In that case I may have said it took 80 hours minimum. I went back and forth with her about the process and I'm not sure all of it sank in. They wanted me to show the whole process start to finish and I explained that wasn't really possible in 2 days of filming. So we fudged a few things...
The strongback and forms are for an Expedition Single that I may or may not build.
The strips we glued on are on a Nymph 12 canoe.
The fiberglassing we did was on an experimental Shearwater project. I'm calling it a "strip and glue" boat. I glued a bunch of panels together from 1/8" strips and cut them out as if they were Okoume. The plan is to glass the inside, wire them together and then proceed as a S&G. I've tried a few test panels to see how much I can twist them with one side glassed and it seems like it will work. I'll finish this someday....
The varnishing was on my light weight Petrel that is now 4 years old.
The crew was great to work with. We had 8 people here the first day and 5 the second.