The trailer didn't fit any where either so we are having to work that out as well. Going to go to work be back in 20-25 days.:food-smiley-007:

Finished painting the engine bay. Turned out really nice :D

It looks so much better in person. Nice job.

Nice,,but u know it will never look like that again .LOL:grinser010:

Thanks.

Yeah, picks don't do it justice. The only overhead lighting in that picture was the camera flash.

Looks Good Andy!! hope you get it on the water this summer:rolleyes: You and John have alot of work to get done with little time!!

Bilge looks great!

How did you like sanding all the woven roving to accept the paint? I thought about doing mine and that's what turned me off... I figured the only way to do it properly was to sand flat the woven layer or have it lightly sand blasted or maybe rubbed down with a scotchbrite pad..

Thanks guys,

I could have spent weeks sanding the bilge, but I didn't. The instructions just want you to do a light sanding to rough up the texture. You don't need to sand all the way down to the fiberglass - or smooth out the fiberglass woven layers. I bought the "brushing awlgrip" how to DVD and they actually recommend spraying a light mist of black spray paint to use as a guide. Once the spray paint is sanded off - your done sanding, the gelcoat wasn't sanded off at all - just roughed up so the paint will stick. As many people I've seen on OSO paint the bilge without sanding or prime with good results - I wasn't really worried about getting into each and every little woven groove. Plus I used two coats of primer. I really didn't have any problems getting the paint to stick. I'm still trying to get it off my hands a week later. I've tried acetone - this chit will not come off my hands. Total cost was around $400 for the bilge paint, brushes, and sand paper. I used gcm distributing - they have the badger hair brushes too http://www.gcmdistributor.com/

I saw those resto picks of Geronimo - that is what I call a restoration. You've done a hell of a job.

Thanks for the response. My concern was as you stated in sanding in-beween the woven strands to get a good bond with the paint. A lot of paints such as Imron don't require you to prime over gelcoat from what I've learned.

i'm sure it will be just fine. I tend to go overboard on prep!

Looks good and best of luck. Thanks for the compliment on my project. PS, I raised the X Dimension it wasn't resto work. :)

Frank

Wow- nice job on the bilge! Its good you took pictures because nothing stays that clean for very long:rolleyes: