I Need A Shrink !

[grgrmouse]

Wow, we have been busy....
Nice to see you back at it on what will, I'm sure, prove to be another great build.
G

[strick]

grgrmouse-

were gonna find you a seacraft and sign you up on the other team for a while.

Working for a living has slowed progress on the 25 seafari. I've finished 90% of the work in the bilge.

fuel tank support



looking back



looking forward



1/2 inch ply glassed on both sides with 1708 screwed to the supports with 5200 and then glassed to the sides of the bilge.







Still grinding out spider cracks on the hull. Now we are able to concentrate on the deck. The fuel tank hatch was trimmed and now sits flush with the deck.









I need access to the forward bilge under the deck in the cabin. So I'm gonna build a hatch for that. This is the beginnings of a mold for the hatch receiver.













After waxing it gets sprayed with pva. I'll let this sit till I can glass it up.



strick

[strick]

Almost forgot...got some primer on the inner hull sides



strick

[grgrmouse]

Nice!
I gotta line on a free 23 but it's in FL. Of course. Waiting on pics to see if I'm going on a road trip...

[strick]

Another weekend gone and more work accomplished on the 25 seafari.

Some photos of the deck hatch receiver and deck hatch that I'm building. Laid up and in the mold



out of the mold. It will get sanded and painted.





Mold for the lid.





where it will sit



Template for the hole I have to cut. The fresh water tank will go in here.





More photos of installing the flange and making the lid.



















I had planned on painting the top cap this weekend...kinda a big deal. I was going to make a spray booth out of the
car port as the boat is too big to spray in the shop. We have been sanding and fairing for a long time. Early
Saturday morning was the last and final check...and there was bird crap all over the boat! I looked up and found
that a humming bird had built her nest right in the middle of the carport over the boat.



I never knew that they were so messy for such a clean looking bird. It appears that they are able to somehow spray their crap vertically and laterally from the appearance of the area around the nest.



My only option was to tarp off the area under the birds and hope that their super pooper was not strong enough to spray beyond the tarp.



At any rate I did end up getting the top cap painted. Saturday was a long day.















I never did post any pictures of my 20sf after the upholstery was finished. Another addition to the boat last year was a bow mounted electric motor. It needed a good cleaning so I snapped some shots after I finished.





















Strick

[McGillicuddy]

Wow, Strick you are hauling a$$ on that thing. Thanks again for posting so many pics - its a real help in getting my head right to attempt glass work. are you using 1/2 baltic birch for coring or what? How big are your squares? like 4 or 5"?

How much product do you us in a hatch like that (the water storage one)? So many questions...Looking great!

[strick]

I was worried that the fumes from the Awlgrip might do the little buggers in but they are still kicking. I don't see the mother come around that much so I worry that she might abandon the nest. I thought about moving the nest but I'm sure that would have been a death sentence for the little guys. The hatch has about 1/8 inch clearance around the edges. It will get screwed down in place since I wont be needing to get in there except to set up the water bladder and connect the hoses and fittings...and maybe check on things once in a while. I hated to cut a hole in the deck like that and I also thought about buying a good metal hatch but they were $300-$400 and would have been rectangular or square. This will look nice when finished. There is enough room to mount a flush base for a table stand.

Nobones- I have a tranquilizer gun but the darts are bigger then the hummingbirds. I have one client that has over 40 Bison. It will bring down a full grown bull Bison when we need to. When I worked in the Vally I used to use it on the Portuguese fighting bulls or irate cattle that are out in pasture. Not too long ago I had a big cow with some wire wrapped around her leg and she was not letting anyone get near her to remove it so out came the tranquilizer gun. It also works great for vaccinating semi wild livestock where there are inadequate facilities to run them thru a chute. We just load the dart with vaccine instead of tranquilizer.

Gil- I probably used about a gallon of resin to make the receiver and hatch.

strick

[SeaPlusPlus]

Looking great! I had no idea hummingbirds could produce that much..."spray".

20 is still looking sexy!

[BigLew]

Hey Stick,
"I never knew that they were so messy for such a clean looking bird. It appears that they are able to somehow spray their crap vertically and laterally from the appearance of the area around the nest."

Those pesky hummingbirds had better thank their lucky stars they are shacking up at a Vet's" carport. Most anyone else on this site would have be having "hummingbird stew" for Sunday dinner!!!

[cdavisdb]

Well, I'm a confirmed environmentalist and am fascinated by hummingbirds, but I don't think I would have been able to handle that. There would not have been enough left to make stew out of.

The spray job looks fabulous!