My wife and are both pilots and  currently have a Cessna TR182 N6391S, that we don't share
well (we both want to be the pilot).

      This summer  we took it back up to Canada to go fishing. It made a 15 hour car ride a 3.5 hour
trip, a real time saver. The problem is that once we got to Nestor falls we had to leave the Cessna
behind at a deserted strip to board a Beech 18 on floats to fly in to the lodge. This got us
thinking....  We need a float plane for low and slow fun exploring the back country lakes, as well as
the mountain strips of Idaho near where my parents are purchasing some property.

      We spent some time looking at the production aircraft that would fit our desires and found that
they would all require selling our beloved Cessna. So we started looking at the home built options.

      Large projects are nothing new for Brooke and I, as we bought a run down house then
completely rehabbed it in two years, replacing everything except the wall studs.

      So we decided to embark on building an airplane. We had narrowed it down to the
http://www.zenithair.com/ 701 or 801 for their short field take off and landing characteristics, long
term history, and respected designer. . At first we were leaning toward the 801 until we decided
that for reliability reasons we would build two  701's instead. The pricing worked out to be about
the same as a quick build 801 and if we would have a problem in the back country one could
always fly the other out. That night 2 rudder kits, and a zenith recommended tool kit was ordered
online.

Here is the story that follows.....
The 701's ... Destine To See
Gods Country
9-18-06  2.5 hours
Started to assemble the pair of rudders. I did mine and my wife did hers. It worked well as we were able to carry things we learned on one
onto the same action on the other rudder

      We laid out, cut and drilled the spar doublers then moved on to the rudder horns