Hi all,
I was supprised to see refrence made to this site regarding my 24' Tolman, RIP Renn, that I've listed on craigslist. My son,Kyle, and I built two of these the winter of 2009 in Winthrop Wa.In the spring I brought mine to Tacoma where I live to rig, wire and outfit while Kyle trailered the other one to Homer, it is a friends boat, Andy, and he was a customer who has a summer place in Homer. I usto live in Homer which is of course where I met Renn and Kyle lives there in the summer and winters in Winthrop.
Kyle is a great craftsman who can think a project through beforehand then is a real whirlwind when he's unleashed. Although I invested a substantial amount of time in the build process my greatest undertaking was figureing out what systems and components I wanted to use and where to put them,like the three 35 gal. fuel tanks in the cabin and that's where Kyles genius took over as far as incorporating them into cabitenery.
I saw mention of a non draining deck problem which was also of a concern to me during our build so I chose to raise and camber the foward portion of the deck at the bulkhead by 2" and reverse camber and raise the aft end of the deck at the transom by 1 1/2" and install the flapper valves from skiff kits in the channeling that Kyle created around the deck hatches and through transom but that didn't quite work out and was never very happy with it so this spring i plugged up the transom and just use a sump box as a pumpout for bilge pump
Thanks for keeping Renn's legend alive
Paul Lints
