These photos were taken the day before Thanksgiving, November 2006.

Sticks, ribs, deck, gear, the skin's somewhere off scree

Here's the bow half partially inserted into the skin. Note the floatation bag up by Rib #1.

Keelson halves fitted, and ready to be pressed into place, then the slider to the right the will be moved left into place and se

Here is the keelson in place and secured. I took these photos during disassembly, which is why the boat looks dirty. The RZ's

Here's a gunwale block and horse-shoe assembly, ready to be pressed into place.

And here it is in place. The white in the background is a sponson sleeve.

Here's the coaming assembly. If you look closely, you can see the coaming stiffeners in the canvas sleeves forming the lip arou

Here's the spraydeck. It is held in place also by the coaming starknobs, on the outside of the coaming, and is a very tight fit

Here is the assembled RZ96 in the empty parking lot at the Cedar Point Public Access Area boat-ramp parking lot on the north sho