Started 20' upgrade and restore

[htillman]

Nice pics, I am interested in the blast work for the bottom. How is it priced? How long does it take? Can they control the amount of paint they remove?

[billythekid]

et 23 I paid $30 a foot which was fair. I had estimates as high as 50 a foot They take all the bottom paint off to the original gelcoat. The only paint he said he has a problem with is the barrier coat epoxy.

[htillman]

That sounds reasonable, I use particle blasting for rotors and they are way more expensive. Some of the media they use remove metal. I will look into this as an alternative. I have used "Polar Blast" as few times but they did not work on what I was trying to clean.

[Islandtrader]

I decided to have the bottom soda blasted and they came on saturday. I took the boat off the trailer and blocked so they could blast it. I have sanded and grinded alot of bottoms and I figured I would give this a try and I am glad I did it was the best money ever spent.

WOW...it looks great. They actually came out to your place? I am getting my 21 done this week. I have to take the boat to a yard, pay the yard to put on stands, and then pay $35 per foot. I guess when you live in an area that is densely populated the services are better.

[billythekid]

got some stuff done on the boat this week. Got the stringers cabosiled in place and glassed. I filled the old drain holes, I installed the weep holes in the stringers. I have to tab the stringer to the transom and I am going to start building the one peice deck mold. I got my console and steering in this week












till next time

[billythekid]

Well I should of spent the 500 bucks to have the whole hull soda blasted. I put 12 hours in to remove the 4 layers of paint and etching primer off the hull. It is done now and no more looking back. The paint was hard as a rock and the 7 inch polisher with the 80 grit green corps was the only thing cutting it. I would sand through 3 layer of paint to the primer and take the rest off with the 5 inch porter cable with 120 grit. I sanded the majority of the inside with 220 to smooth all the orange peel off. My plans for the up coming week are picking the tank up form SP tanks, make 3 fiberglass bulkheads, glassing up the platform for the gas tank. and start building the mold for the deck.

[billythekid]

Got some stuff done on the boat this week. I made the 3 bulkheads, cabosiled and glassed them into place. I made 3/4 marine ply strips for the gas tank but I abandon them after I had trouble getting the glass wrapped around them and made a 1/2 inch fiberglass panel and ripped it into 4 strips for the gas tank supports. That way I know they will not rot. I made a fiberglass panel with a drainage dip into for below deck storage. I cleaned everything twice over and bilge coated the coffin for the gas tank and the below deck storage. I laid the neoprene down for the gas tank with 5200. I picked the tank up yesterday and they did a really nice job on it along with the epoxy coating.

[billythekid]

got some stuff done on sunday. I built the jig for the one peice deck mold.I used 8 big glue sticks and a full sheet of 1/8 laun. I built a Big laminating table for the one piece construction. 150 bucks to build the laminating table. also got my order of dyvinacel in.also cleaned up the garage it was a train wreck. I hauled 5 construction bags out and cleaned the work table up.

[strick]

You are hauling on this thing! Thats one big A$$ molding table. It will come in handy for other things as well. I like the jig you built. I may have missed this but what kind of power are you going with? keep the pics coming

strick

[CaptLloyd]

Billy,

You are really moving on your project, and some fine work I might add. Building that molding table and making a jig for a one piece deck replacement leads me to believe you have done something like this before .

BTW, I feel your pain on the keeping the garage clean thing, that's always an up hill battle .

Keep the post coming!

Lloyd