After that some clear coat was applied to the transom, and the hull was moved to another hall to let the primer cure for a couple of months.
Finally I was able to get some photos or the entire hull and to see the hull lines without any stripes.
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Now I think that's enough photos and updates for today.

Looking Good Pear. Redoing a 85 mistress now hoping to splash this spring. Any plans for power yet?

Thanks Ragman, but this is only a selection, I have tons more.
(And I can't take full credit, because a couple of the pictures are actually taken by you.)

Thanks for the comment!
1985, that's without windscreen but with a straight wind deflector, or am I wrong?
I'm getting to the power in a few posts, but don't get you hopes up on something fancy, I went for a "economical" solution instead of a high-power one.

It has a aluminum fairing on it. Will post some pictures soon. Had a friend paint it that does bump work for a living and redoing some of his work. I gonna be married to this thing after all the bills add up but it's by choice I think. Built a pair of 598 dart blocks and imco scx drives on boxes. Brian41 is helping with rigging them and were raising the X. Hoping the old turd breaks 80.

love those tread!

Thanks for the comment, I hope I can keep your interest up!

If I recall correctly it was about this time in the project that the guy doing the paint job put on a serious face and looked at me and said: "I hope you're not thinking about putting the deck hatches back in the shape they are in."
I didn't really understand what he meant. A bit dirty perhaps?
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But cleaning them didn't help much..
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If I try to polish them then? OK better but it only made all the scratches visible.
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So it was time to get serious first wet-sanding with grit 800 - 1200 -2000 to get rid of the scratches and then rubbing and finally polish. So now at least the plexiglass looks OK,
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But the frames looked quite awful too so the only solution was was sanding, primer and paint
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Or for the smaller parts sandblasting and paint.
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And in the end I got the hatches back to the boat ready for installation.
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The plan was to rechrome the ventilators for the engines.
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But when I heard the pricetag for that work, which was about 5 times higher than buying new ones I changed my mind.
So here I will lose a bit of the original look, but I think these vents used for Bertrams will be an acceptable alternative and fit nicely.
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(Now I feel like I'm getting into rather small details...)

That's ok. Looks good and even the smallest details are appreciated.