1974 Chieftan 21' 165 Mercruiser I/O

[jbcurt00]

Re: 1974 Chieftan 21' 165 Mercruiser I/O

You drag home a free donor w a V8 & got nobody to help, give me a shout. Its above 30 or we're inside a garage, I'm up for some demo....

 

[cj8mule]

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The paint dried pretty good and I took advantage of the slightly warmer weather today for a flip and load onto the trailer.

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Successful flip without any hernias

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The rope tied onto the bow was to keep the boat from sliding down the hill. I'm not repeating what happened a few months ago :facepalm: The only casualty was just a little cut from the gunnel.

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[GA_Boater]

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Blood and tinnies got together like a horse and carriage - Well, you got the picture. The rope was a good idea, you avoided an unintended splash.

 

[cj8mule]

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Here's my first attempt at mixing a darker blue

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I started with Royal Blue from Rustoleum and added some gloss black. I went way to far with the black and made "Baby Poop Blueck"

 

[Watermann]

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Dang resourceful crowd we have in the Starmada but you take the cake CJ doing all that outside and on a cliff by yourself! Well almost alone, looks like some dog tracks in the snow too.

Yah I don't care so much for that shade of "blueck" either.

 

[redneck joe]

Re: 1974 Chieftan 21' 165 Mercruiser I/O

was your wife watching all that ?

 

[jbcurt00]

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Blueck, yeah, not a good choice.

Suggestion, know anybody that works at Ace? They might color match the Rusto even though it's not 'their' paint.

Or you might get a color matched quart of the right blue you want in the Ace branded paint. Same stuff.

 

[jbcurt00]

Re: 1974 Chieftan 21' 165 Mercruiser I/O

psst:

Not mine

In Forest Hills Don't know what you've got planned for the Chief's helm, but not a bad looking set, inexpensive, although used, hard to tell from the pix

 

[cj8mule]

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Blood and tinnies got together like a horse and carriage - Well, you got the picture. The rope was a good idea, you avoided an unintended splash.

Lol GA! I had a little bit of slack in the rope and it slide down a few feet :faint2: I'm renting a skid for some dirt moving next summer!

Dang resourceful crowd we have in the Starmada but you take the cake CJ doing all that outside and on a cliff by yourself! Well almost alone, looks like some dog tracks in the snow too.

Yah I don't care so much for that shade of "blueck" either.

The puppy is deaf and got put inside. He's the SWMBO and is more important than me ... if he got hurt ... :fish:
That shade of "blueck" got replaced with some single stage paint from the local body shop today. It's gonna look great.

was your wife watching all that ?

Lol Joe! She would have just shook her head and gone inside to make sure the life insurance was paid up

Blueck, yeah, not a good choice.

Suggestion, know anybody that works at Ace? They might color match the Rusto even though it's not 'their' paint.

Or you might get a color matched quart of the right blue you want in the Ace branded paint. Same stuff.

I checked with my local Ace Hardware and True Value. Neither would mix any oil base, but would the exterior latex. So, I just went with an auto paint made by valspar.

That is an awesome gauge set for $95.

 

[GA_Boater]

Re: 1974 Chieftan 21' 165 Mercruiser I/O

That is a nice set of gauges for less than a hundred,

 

[redneck joe]

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Lol Joe! She would have just shook her head and gone inside to make sure the life insurance was paid up

OK sounds like mine. Carry on.

 

[cj8mule]

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We had a little window of short sleeve weather and I was able to get a little bit more paint on.

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Now I'm just watchin paint dry... I wasn't able to get the white to dry quick enough to tape off for the blue stripe. Now back to winter and our regular programming. It looks like at least another week until we have some temps above 50 degrees.

 

[jbcurt00]

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Looks good, nice break in the chilly, but it's been raining off & on since yesterday here..........................

 

[dozerII]

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She looks real good in a white dress cj.

 

[classiccat]

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Great job capitalizing on a tiny window of opportunity! looks fantastic! :thumb:

 

[jasoutside]

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Looks nice, clean and new:encouragement:

 

[GA_Boater]

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It's easy to watch paint dry when it looks good like that, CJ.

 

[Watermann]

Re: 1974 Chieftan 21' 165 Mercruiser I/O

Huge step forward there getting the hull paint behind you, looking good! :encouragement:

 

[Weep'n Willy]

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Paint on the gal looking nice. I believe that paint is a milestone that instills a great desire to keep reaching for the end goal.

 

[InMotion]

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Looks awesome man! Nice work. Amazing that you are able to be out there painting at this time of year! Good fur ya man!

Really is a great step to get behind ya and move on to getting her put all back together.

J.