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I’m absolutely sure

I know nothing about fairing a boat hull. So with that in mind I tried a few fairing recipes with the materials I have on hand. The first one I tried is called ‘blended filler’ from Bateau.com. This is a lightweight filler sold by the designer specific…

Video processed and ready to go

Here’s another video delight to waste some more of your time!  :-)Still working at improving the videos. It’s hard to condense 3 hrs of raw video into 6 1/2 minutes. Thanks for looking in.

I do try to learn

from my mistakes or previous attempts at this boat building stuff. As you saw earlier I hauled the peel ply off the other day’s work on the starboard side and the results were just Ok. Today I decided to forego the peel ply and relied on some aggressiv…

And the results are

pretty much what I expected. A few dry spots and a couple of bubbles that popped up over night. Nothing I can’t fix or work with.This shows a pretty good section.I know it looks like a ‘blue blob’ like something out of an old horro movie! *lol* It’s sm…

Once side down

One more to go. 4 hrs, 4.5 litres of epoxy, 24′ of peel ply, one roller and about a dozen latex gloves. Sorry no pics. Too sore. Got back spasms right between the shoulder blades about 3/4 of the way through but couldn’t quit. I’m gonna be sore tomorro…

Twas the night before

Twas the night before Epoxy Day, when all through the boat shed,Not a creature was stirring, not even a lazy ass’d ole’ Tom Cat.The fiberglass was hung on the boat sides with care, In hopes that St Epoxy soon would be there.Oh Gawd someone help me…

Sandinsanity & Acetone

So that whole going to work thing kinda got in the way of my project. I apologize for that. Anywho, the project I was working on is set back so it doesn’t like I’ll have to go back into work for awhile (if ever). I’m not heartbroken over that. The extr…

My ole’ Grandpa

was a wise ole’ fella. Always used to tell me: “Never trust a guy with a clean workshop, he’s not busy ’nuff to be any good!” Yeah well that may well be true Grandpa but I just had to clean up my boat shed today. I made a heck of a mess building the se…

My ole’ Grandpa

was a wise ole’ fella. Always used to tell me: “Never trust a guy with a clean workshop, he’s not busy ’nuff to be any good!” Yeah well that may well be true Grandpa but I just had to clean up my boat shed today. I made a heck of a mess building the se…

So I’m having a little conversation

with Lori via Facebook chat. I happen to mention that she might have some extra shelf space left over. There’s a silence. No response. Two minutes pass and I send her another message: “Did you fall off the chair darlin’?” Ok, still no response. I get t…