This brings back some goooood memories for me, so I'm in.
Before he died my dad and I, at my request, took an old rear-steer riverboat and rebuilt it into a flats flyfishing boat. Never got to see it in the water..
^^^ good to hear. Me and my dad had many a project together. All farm and ranch related though. Never a fun boat project, it was work that led to more work!
Wax paper worked!!!! All the excess that squeezed out of the crack was on top. I hit it with a grinder then a sander. I have a heat lamp on it now. I need to warm the hull up to add the epoxy filler.
I'm able to devote 100% of my very limited free time to this rig. Top coat for the other boat was ordered and a got an email a week later. It was backordered and they added an additional 2 weeks. So that order got canceled and we found another source. Until that order arrives I can only work on one boat.
Topside is primed! The back drain hole is complete too. The glass repair is unnoticeable and I had to reshape the oval hole with a quarter round file. I think it came out really well.
Look close and you can see a bunch of circles. The primer is thick and designed to fill in ugly spots. The circled area are spots in not happy with and will get additional epoxy filler added. I got another layer of glass on the old speaker holes on the console too. Tomorrow is another Arctic blast and a chance of snow...then I'm headed outa state so this is the last of it for a few weeks.
I have a day off and it's raining.....go figure. I did get a little done early this am. Made the last patch on the inside of the console. It's in the bottom left of the picture. It was a hole for the control cables to pass through. It's in a tough spot and going to be a real pita to to patch up.
Temps have been a huge issue. I've been using a thermometer and have been very strict about working within the required temp range. The thermometer has allowed me to get more done by using heat lamps as well. Otherwise there would be even less work getting done.
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