stoney , warthog, et al...
 

"easier" is a relative thing... fairing is a bee-itch.

But it's coming.

I installed the new bilge pump / float switch mounting plate, a piece of well buttered ply, bonded in, not screwed like the original. The plate is 10" x 12", I cut 2" wide strips of RW and 9oz cloth, 2 pieces of each per side, wet them up, and made up pads of 9oz-RW-RW-9oz, layed across each end of the plate, flipped it over and installed it in the hull.

And did the final transom wraps, two layers of glass, 1x9oz & 1x12oz, over the transom cap edge and down onto the outer skin.

and faired.

and faired.

and faired.

actually, I was thinking of doing the bilge in grey bilge kote. but white is interesting.


Bill

Re: stoney , warthog, et al...
 

I hate gray Bildgecoat. It's dark and dingy and it doesn't clean up real easy.

http://www.classicmako.com/projects/...ges/bilge8.jpg

Re: warthog - points well taken...
 

I used Coosa Bluewater 26.
It was very easy to work with and didn't dull the router bits at all. It is expensive compared to plywood but I've spent so much on this boat at this point I have to keep it until I'm 90.
This shows how much higher the boat site in the water now.
The pic was taken with 80 gallons of gas in the tank.
My goal was not to have the motor well fill up with water when drifting in our usual 3-6 foot chop.
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...retransom1.jpg

sold.....
 

I think....


on the white, for the bilge, that is... [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

how to lose track of details - part 37

I was checking the cure on the transom wrap last night, after karate class, too late to do any more work, bumming, and realized that I had put 2 (hmmm... or was that 3) layers of glass inside the inner cap lip, before installing the new core, then 3 more layers over the transom onto the wood core, and then 2 more layers over the transom onto the outer skin - in each case extending the new glass out past the corner, and / or interlocking the flat bottom with the sides of the motorwell.

OK, I think I can stop there.

Might be stiff enough.


PS - in the past annals of this illustrious and very helpful board, I saw multiple discussion over whether or not polyester resin based products, like gel-coat, could be put over West System epoxy successfully. WS assures that it can, so long as the WS epoxy is fully cured. It seems to have worked for me - I have tried some polyester based fairing compound, and it's looking good - clean cure, no fisheyes or other bs.

break time - off to the Vineyard for a few days, with my son, to see if we can scare up a few fish with my brother.

Bill

Re: sold.....
 

Ringleader has done it to his boat on the stem. I saw the boat 3yrs after he did it. It's perfect.

some fairing shots -
 

got some work in this evening, before heading out - I think the fairing is just about done -
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...r/fairing1.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...r/fairing2.jpg

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...r/fairing4.jpg

be back next week

Bill

an initial color coat -
 

and a mistake - I tried some pigmented polyester resin - at least on the first coat it's just too translucent - the faired areas show terribly. Looks like either gelcoat or paint will have to be the final finish.

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...colorcoat1.jpg

note to you married guys - don't try this at home - I'm already divorced - just want to get this boat back in the water and take my son out bluefishing while there is still some season left - speaking of which, time to split this joint, get him up and get packed, and head for the Vineyard !

[img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Bill

back from the Vineyard...
 

some fine weather, boating, and fishing in hand, somewhat restored....

back to the boat - the color pickled polyester resin surface coat didn't hurt me any, just another layer added to the fairing, sanded it down, masked up the boat and got out my spray gear (way back on page 1, the admin has a post on tools you can't live without - being an old hotrodder, I'd say it's my bag of air tools, and a decent compressor !)

so this is after 2 coats -
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...startpaint.jpg

and this is after 2 more coats - fairly good color match
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...nish-paint.jpg

next up, some white for the transom cap area, and get the motor mounted.

Bill

Re: back from the Vineyard...
 

Bill,
Looks good. Are you eventually going to shoot the whole boat? I would think red is a tough color to match in this case.

Scott - color -
 

red is truly a cast iron bee-itch - I think it is the worst of the colors for susceptibility to oxidizing and looking washed out..

I got lucky on the transom, but I won't be shooting the whole boat, not anytime soon. and not that color.

I may, sometime in the future, go after a complete change to blue, a'la the Seafari in the Hermco page - the blue bottom, white top looks really nice.

and being trailered for it's new future, it won't need bottom paint, but removing the existing will be left, for now, to the "water erosion" process [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Bill