Operation "facelift"
 

Motor/drive pulled, int out, ventury off(for good), bow rail gone (relocate) antenas gone, holes filled (west sys) deck resurfaced,
repair areas first prime, Interior sides repainted (two tone).
Total time 30 hrs. I might be ahead of schedual. still alot ahead of me. Block, prime, sand, color coat, sand, grafics and clear, sand and clear. And buff of coarse. No pics yet, I'll have to figure out how in my spare time. Geo

Step two complete
 

First prime today. Fill minor defects and sand tomarrow. Tinted filler primer will be applied on Mon.

TOO OLD, I'm only doing the top side this year, below the rail next year. Also I have done this sort of thing for 28yrs. Mostly cars, a few boats and 1 airplane and that was the worst. The last boat I did only got wet 5 times. Came apart on shut down @220mph. (More Grounds For Divorce) was the name T/A hydro.
Good luck on yours and keep me posted. Geo

GEO, glad to see that your underway. Soundsl like you've gotten quite a ways, hopefully with no encountered problems. Do you think that those seats will work for you, or are you going to use them in the other boat? I've got to finish my interior, but the person doing it wont have time until around May sometime. Oh Well, it's not going anywhere anytime soon. Oh yeah did you see the post from NW Jim about the get together in Bremerton?

Les

TOO OLD, Use 80grit for straitness, or if you have a large area of repair and it had alot of fill, I used a 8" mud hog to take it down enough to finish by hand. That also is a air tool. 150-180 to smooth out prior to priming. I use a longboard or hard block for straitness, by hand, softblock with 150 to smooth area prior to priming. To sand any major area I have with a DA air sander. I used 150 on all jellcoat prior to priming. I have a 26' took about 2 hrs to sand entire boat. I was glad I wasn't doing below the rail though. One thing I could recommend though is using GOOD sandpaper, it's not cheep but remember (time is money and good men don't sweat.:D Happy Easter Too Old. PS my wife asked how old is he and my reply was maybe about my age.:D Geo

TINTED FILLER PRIMER TODAY
 

OK< I may make another post on how to post pics. I can get them into the comp, but then I am lost. But applied tinted primer today, (brite red), same as main color. I'll block sand tomarrow finish sand thurs. Can't wait till sat to paimt main color. GEO

Wear ear plugs when using a DA. If your ears ring after noise exposure, you are damaging the inner ear- my right ear rings all the time from working in a body shop to fund my coolige edumacation.

Or could it have been the L-88 427 with headers in my Sleekcraft jetboat?

Bulldog

WHAT DID YOU SAY BULLDOG!!!

FIRST COLOR SPRAYED
 

Painted deck and dash rise white pearl for grafics base color.
Still have a long way to go though. Headway is headway though.

:D GEO

Cmon Geo, get them photos up :D

Les

Well, laid all grafic base color, fri/sat. Painted main color, (brite red/orange) and even with daylight savings time I still ran out of
daylight/warm weather. I won't clear at night, TOO many bugs. I do have pics and I will try to learn how to tranfer them from Cdirve and post them. I promise Les.
TOO OLD, Can't really tell how big or what part your working on but if all those lines were cracks, MAN you have been working hard, real hard.:D

what type of base coat, and primer are you using?
What brand?
You spraying or rolling?
Thanks
Jason

Well, haven't decided on grafis design as of yet. Spent today replacing front bulkhead and making a sideboard in cabin to mount the amps, changer, and vhf. I guess I am becoming a woodworker, not by choice but I didn't do too bad either.
Tomarrow we will mount amps and reglass entry to cabin floor.
I will try to post the pics I have tonight or tomarrow. Promis.

GEO

Now I forget which pics I want to send. Lets see

I'll try again
 

Above was first stage epoxy.

I'm on a roll
 

After white pearlcoat and clear I used spraymask and based my second color peeled spray mask and cleared.

Hope I get these right

Yep I did
 

This should be Glasurit tinted filler primer (285-95). I know my pics are a little out of order but atleast they are posted.

SORRY WRONG #
 

I'll get it right

Geo 100,
I'm glad you got the pictures posted. Your boat looks great! How do you like the spray mask as compared to just masking off the color?
Dan

Candyman, I use spraymask when doing complicated multi grafic or as in this case, I traced one side of the original deck pattern used spray mask to trace pattern and then flipped to make matching. I used to use it alot when doing M/C helmets.

Geo the boat looks great. Doesn' even look like the same one.
Les

Geo, great looking boat!! You're right. It does look just like mine.

Nice job.:cool:

Just thoyught I would keep you posted on progress. All wet sanded, will be laying out secondary grafics tomarrow and hopefully painting what I can. Project is starting to grow, but it should be coooooool. After colors I post pics. GEO

Geo, looks real good. how many hours into it are you? just wondering. -Scott
P.S. -nice tow vehicle by the way! :p

SCOOT MC, by the last pic I'm about 60 hrs total, from pulling motor/int, filling 30 some repairs from bow rail, painting int pieces
after this last week replacing front bulkhead, reglassing entry floor, and todays grafics I'm about 90. Thanks for the comment on my van. GEO

Geo, i think scotts tow vehicle comment was directed at the john deere.:D :eek: