Re: Poor Man's Skiboat...Restore?
I have been working on the hull for anywhere from 1 to 3 hours per day. Sanding sucks, but the worse part is I have created most of the sanding work for myself. Most of this will seem very obvious to a normal person, but to me it is far from so. I am a 98% function guy and a 2% form guy, but of course I want the boat to look half way decent so this is forcing me to work in a way I am not use to.
1. The flaper discs gouge into the gelcoat and create new little areas of fun to fill.
2. This is the outside of the boat, not the inside and any little imprefection shows up (this sounds obvious to everyone, but the way my mind works it wasn't)
3. I need a better fairing compound. RIght now I am using the bondo short strand fiberglass filler, which works great for big chunks of missing fiberglass and gelcoat, but a true fairing compound is what I need for the little imprefections ie. angle grinder madness.
4. On the inside of the boat a dribble of resin is not really a big deal if you forget to wipe it up, on the outside it is another couple of mins of sanding
I am not going to paint the boat while it is flipped for two reasons:
1. It won't be warm enough for a couple of months and I have tons of other things I can be doing right now.
2. I don't have the cash to order all of the painting supplies I need.
Here are some pictures of my mess.
I thought it would be a good idea to lay 1708 over the keel for more strength. After that was done I remembered CSM only on the outside otherwise you won't have a smooth finish. After much sanding and filling I have gotten the keep smoothed out.
Here is the transom mess. I had no choice but to use the flapper disc on a lot of the objects here. Much more filling is required once the hull is back over. The filling that has been done was just put down and is not yet sanded.
Unsanded repairs to the side of the hull. Most of this was gelcoat cracking, but the big one was where I cut through the hull. 1708 and CSM is on the other side.
