Here We Go Again

[strick]

Thanks Ed After reading that I think that I may have not added enough catalyst to the skin coat. Temps were hot that day and I decided to use a little less catalyst to increase my working time. I did not want the part to set up too fast. At least it was only in a few small areas. It's fixed now. I will do another light sand and then another coat of primer and it's going on then boat hopefully by this weekend.

Here is a close up of what alligatoring looks like.



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[strick]

Slow going this week. Work has me running around putting out fires. Spent most of the day digging footings for the new shop. I've been waiting 4 months for the building permit and I finally got it yesterday. first the engineer screwed up on the plans so that had to be fixed and then the city took it's sweet time getting the permit issued. I rented a mini backhoe and let Jared go at it.



I managed to get the bracket faired, sanded and primed after work this week. I did a test fit to see how it's going to sit. I'm having some 1/8 inch SS square washers punched out at a local welding shop and they should be ready on Monday. The bracket is pretty much finished. I still have to put in a drain plug, and cover a few small annoying pin holes then sand with 220 grit. It will get painted when I paint the rest of the boat.









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[1bayouboy]

Looks awesome Strick.....as usual... Is the bottom
parallel to the keel as on your other one or does it have a little rise front to back.

At least you get to sand in the shade.. [img]/forum/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] I'm not sure there's anything worse than sanding in that position. It's looking great though....so hang in there....I need you for inspiration.

[strick]

The keel of the bracket runs parallel with the keel of the boat. I have not got a weight on the bracket. My fish scale only goes to 50 pounds. I may have to estimate. The bracket took about 11 gallons of resin which is about 100 pounds of resin. The glass I'd have to say weighs about 40-50 pounds. so I'm gonna say about 140-150 pounds. I'll try and locate a scale before I permanently bolt it to the boat.

George has been doing a good job of sanding off the blistered gel goat. One side of the bottom of the boat was not too bad but the other side has lots of blisters.

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[NoBones]

Strick, Boy do I know about that freakin' permit process.
11 months for architect and 4 months for building permit.
Impact fees, etc, etc. I quess it is the same no matter what state you live in. It is all about the money!!!!!

Any how the boat is lookin' real good! Break-out the old
bath room scale although not 100% accurate, it will be close.

See ya, Ken

[BigLew]

Speaking of the bathroom scale!
I recently saw a trick for determining the tongue weight of a trailer using one. The trick was to take a stout enough board and a brick or two. Set one end of the board on the brick and then set the tongue of the trailer 1 ft. to the side of it on the board. Then place the scale 3 or 4 ft. from the brick depending on the mecanical advantage you need to reduce the tongue weight so that the resulting reading is within the range of the scale. Then multiple the reading on the scale by the ratio of the number of feet from the brick to the scale. ex. scale 4 ft. from brick with reading of 100 lb. would work out to 400 lb. tongue weight. Not surprising, but ingenius!