Re: 1962 Arkansas Traveler restoration
Not much to report tonight. I got the second and final coat on the floor and walls. My wife came out and said she liked the way the white looked on the walls and she didn't like the idea of the speckled/faux finish. So that puts an end to the painting projects on the boat!!! Saved me a couple hours of work too- what a gal
I also ordered the chocks for the bow, and the cleats for the stern. Perko makes some that closely resemble the originals.
I will also include the pics of the spray paints that some of you asked about.
Final floor
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Here is the Evinrude/Johnson Metallic Charcoal paint I used for the rubrail, cowl, and lower unit of the motor. This is some paint in a can! I've used spray paint before but this is by far the toughest spray paint I've used. It comes out thick and tacky- not run down like alot of others.
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Here are all the others that I used
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In order-
1- the Zinc Phosphate primer is used to prime aluminum,
2- The Rustoleum Metallic Aluminum I used to paint the windshield frames and a couple of the pieces on my cowl,
3- The Metallic Charcoal,
4- Rustoleum Gloss White I used on the cowl,
5- Krylon Outdoor Spaces Metallic Gold I used for the emblems on the cowl, 6- Krylon Indoor/Outdoor Gloss Global Blue I used for the knob on my throttle cable and on the emblems on my cowl because it match up really close to the pettit ocean blue, and
7- Krylon Indoor/Outdoor Cherry Red I used on the cowl emblem and on my throttle knob.
I decided to paint the windshield frames just to keep everything looking the same and to match. The other reason, and probably the main reason is because I am going to use the 3m premium filler to fill all the extra holes that were drilled into the frames and this is a way to cover them up. Technically painting is not done on the boat yet I guess
I maid a list of things that need to be done yet.
1. Tomorrow my neighbor and I are going to the boat store to do the title transfer and to pick up the other trailer! I will post the pics tomorrow.
2. Get the motor hung on the boat and get the windshield done.
3. I am going to look the trailer over and I may paint it a little to match the boat. Just looking at it quick the other day I think its going to need a couple little things so I will have to do that. Once that is done I will crank the boat on it!
4. Take the boat to the guy who is going to work on the motor for me. He is going to do a compression test, do the rewiring, and basically clean it up. Hopefully he lets me tinker around with him so I can learn a thing or two.
5. Take the boat to my boat place so they can mount the bracket for my old motor for the teleflex steering. I will have them do the gas tank too since that needs new components for it to work with my gas gauge.
6. GET THIS BAD BOY ON THE WATER!!!! Hopefully with 2-3 weeks tops!
7. After that, start looking into having someone redo the bimini top that was on it. The old one had red/maroon fabric so I need to get new fabric and take that somewhere to have it sewn up.
Sorry for the long post but I'm getting very anxious since I'm very near the end!
Gotta get to bed. Goodnight!
