Category: Boat Designers

November 17, 2011; 8:00 am – 2:00 pm, day 20. Today, I built a couple of 1×6 cradles around the boat connecting one to the forward bulkhead and the other to the mid cockpit bulkhead. These were made using scrap plywood and lumber. After these were built and attached, I turned her over using 4…

November 12, 2011. After dinner I worked for an hour and a half masking off and sanding the green hull paint with 220 grit sand paper and an orbital sander. This was a very light and quick sanding. Then I added a 3rd cost of Jade green. The next step will be righting the hull…

November 12, 2011; 9:30 am – noon; day 19. Today I applied the bottom paint. After dinner I will sand the Jade green hull with 220 grit and add another coat.

November 11, 2011; 8:00 am – noon; day 18. Happy Veterans Day! Today, I finished longboard sanding with 120 grit, masked her off and painted the hull. Taking time sanding and filling and repeating this process is kind of pain in the elbows but will give you a fine paint job. Tomorrow I will paint…

November 10, 2011; 8:00 am – 4:00 pm. Today is day 17. I cut and fixed, glued and screwed 1 1/2″x 1/4″ UHMW to the bottom of the keel shoe and bilge keels. Then longboarded the hull again with 120 grit and added another coat of filler to the low spots.

November 9, 2011; 9:15 am – 11:30 am. Today is day 16, and I prepped the hull for painting by sanding, dusting and masking. Then, I applied the first coat of Jade Green hull paint. This is just one of three to four coats. I have to longboard sand and fill between each coat.

November 5, 2011; 8:15 am – 4:15 pm. Today was another long day of longboard sanding. I also added a layer of the white fairing filler.

November 4, 2011; 9:30 am – 5:00 pm. This is day 14. Last night after dinner I spent 1 1/2 hours putting a thin top coat of fairing compound over the hull. Today I built the keel shoe, stem, bilge keels and then fit and installed them with epoxy and screws. I added the bilge…

November 3, 2011; 7:00 am – 3:15 pm. It was a long day of pure labor!!! I longboarded the complete hull with 40 grit. Tonight after dinner I plan to mix up some tick 410 compound and fill all the shiny spots on the hull. Tomorrow I will hit it again with the longboard but…

November 2, 2011; 9:00 am – 1:30 pm. Today, I took a longboard with 40 grit and hit the hull knocking off all the high spots. Then I applied 410 fairing compound to the complete hull. I also put the first coat of varnish to the transom