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.

Finished painting the engine bay. Turned out really nice

It looks so much better in person. Nice job.

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

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 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