Here We Go Again

[gerbil]

herning is a great place, glad they saved you some money

Jeremy

[strick]

Time for an up date. I've managed to get a little done on the boat over the last couple weeks. I had a couple quarts
of awlgrip left over from my 23 project so I decided to go ahead and paint with that rather then Imron. This boat
will sit on a trailer most of it's life. The bottom is painted with a 50/50 combo Mattahorn white and Off white.




I got a nice hatch from TH marine. Cast aluminum and the lid comes completely off for easy access to the bilge were the seacock and one of the bilge pumps will be.




Cut outs for deck hardware:




Some of the hardware that will be going on the boat. The Accon LED bow light is really slick:



I used the gantry crane to slide the blocks and supports around so I could finish painting the bottom of the boat:




I was able to get the boat on the trailer by myself using the gantry crane:




It fits in the shop nicely:




My son caught this 13 pound catfish in the canal behind our house the other day:



He caught it plugging for stripers using a 1/2 ounce rattle trap on a ultralight pole with 4 pound test. Dad had to help him a little.



since I was able to get the boat in the shop I felt like I was on a roll so I decided to finish painting the outside
of the boat. The 545 awlgrip primer was sanded with 220 using a DA sander and hand blocked as well.

Masking it off:




tack coat applied:




Successive coats applied:




As you can see I was painting late in the day. Not a good idea. The bugs were not a problem but visibility was. I
could not use too many lights or my breaker would kick off because of the voltage drop with all my cords strung out from the house. At any rate I got it painted.

After Looking at the paint job in the sunlight the next day I decided that I could not live with the way it looked.

There were some areas that needed to be sanded more. Everything was nice and smooth however some of the areas were I added filler were too high and needed to be sanded down more. So I broke out the sander once again.




Then Re-sanded the entire boat and primed the areas that needed it:



Then back in the shop for re-painting:




It looks better now. Something I think I can live with.





strick

[Bryan A.]

Nice!!! Looks like you'll be ready for my Parker soon.

Love that color.

Tell your son nice catch from New England.

[GradySailfish]

Strick, nice work ! I think I like the Fighting Lady Yellow, but I think I'll be doing Ice blue for my 20...which is nearing its paint stage.

I applied some 545 today and noticed that it looks like I can see the body work underneath. The thing is, when I run my hand around the area, it feels smooth, when I apply a ruler its fair, but it looks like the body work is coming through the primer. In your first primer picture you had a similar mark through the primer...do you think more coats will cover it up ? Other then that the my hull is super smooth, only the top cap somewhat concerns me.

Alex

[strick]

Alex- If you are going to paint with the ice blue you should use white 545 because it will cover better. Dark primer for dark colors and light primer for light colors. Took me forever to cover the gray with the yellow.

As for the bleed through, I think the more primer you lay down the better off you will be however you may have to do more sanding as well over these areas.

My hull was a mess from all the blisters and even though I've spent countless hours sanding and fairing and priming there are still areas that could look better. There are even areas were you can see the roven woving bleed through if you look hard enough. The roven bleed through was there originally from the factory... you could see it through the white gel coat. I could have spent another two months on this hull shooting it with high build primer etc... but like you said the fall run is coming soon and after all these are fishing boats not Lake Tahoe Wooden CrisCrafts

strick

[GradySailfish]

Thanks for the input Strick. I did the grey initially because it covers better then white and also shows more imperfections then white. The plan was to prime in grey first, and when all the imperfections are done, put some white primer just before the top coat.

I agree though, you can only do so much. You had many blisters and I had many many stress cracks.

I'll see what more primer does. Hopefully it will cover those areas, because they certainly feel smooth and a ruler shows it to be even.

I like the Fighting lady yellow. I did my previous 16 sport craft project in that color scheme.

[strick]

I got off work early today so I pulled the boat out of the shop to see what it looked like out in the sunlight. There are a couple spots that are obvious blemishes in the prep work but for the most part the paint job looks good. There are no orange peels, runs etc....





There is lots of ground reflection in these transom shots




The most obvious screw up below:




strick

[joey]

Damn, Strick pretty work!! I haven't been on the site lately ,she is looking great!!I like the color,that's the same color I just painted the carolina boat with.
Thanks again for the local knowledge.
Joey