Flier, building a fast 27 lb foam and fabric fishing boat with a used hacksaw blade!

Flier is a fast super light 27 pound 12 ’ foam and fabric fishing rowboat I built in January 2020 to replace my Lifetime Tamarack fishing kayak. It’s faster, lighter , roomier, carries more weight, and is more stable than my kayak. The DIY design has many unique qualities and was built using unconventional materials and construction methods. Surprisingly, the main tool used to build it was an old hacksaw blade! No expensive fiberglass or resins were used, almost everything was water-cleanup, inexpensive, and locally available. No power tools were needed.  I built Flier in a tiny rented room on the 4th floor of an office building in Vermont. Because lakes were frozen here, I tested her on the Pocomoke River in Maryland in early February, just before Covid 19 hit. I’ve used it for 25 fishing outings since then this summer in Vermont and New Hampshire, catching brown and rainbow trout, bass, and crappies. Follow-up videos: Fall fishing in Flier, Vermont smallmouth and pike: