well I brought it home I am trying to upload picture here bt cant do it so will put it in album, boat is very dirty has been sitting in field for two years no cover or anything, hulls very faded some scratches on bottom, and can see through gelcoat in few places from beach wear. all in all i think a pretty good starter boat and we will see where we end up with after replaceing lines and rigging? good cleaning and sail it for the season, next year i can paint it or upgrade to newer boat????
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Posted: Apr 11, 2010 - 10:42 PM
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Posted: Apr 12, 2010 - 09:31 AM
congrats.
you may want to slap on some new epoxy/gelcoat if the bottoms are showing through to the glass..
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Posted: Apr 12, 2010 - 07:09 PM
Andrew i am laughing cause after many years working with fiberglass I was wondering how the technique of slapping on some epoxy and gelcoat works, I have found that there is usually a hole bunch of prep work that happens before, then yo just stand back and throw it????
I am laughing it does sound easy but it always ends up being more complicated than that...
Thanks for the well wishes, I liked your advice from way back that said just find a boat and go sailing.....
Looking forward to fun summer.
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Posted: Apr 13, 2010 - 03:53 AM
Thats the way they do it in Fla. or maybe the way Andrew does it, they just "SLAP" it on. I was lookin at yer cat in the album section... It's a good start~~congrat's... Did yer dog help with the driving, or did he navigate?? If ya need any help, I'd be willing to drive out there, and be careful with the "old rudder" system, if the castings don't break~~ the transom will !!!!!! Oh and sorry about the kidding on the other post... thats just me, a kidder
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Posted: Apr 13, 2010 - 07:50 AM
hEY i love the kidding I usually am doing proposals numbers and serious stuff on the computer so some lighthearted fun stuff is great it make me laugh .... The puppy is ten months old she layed across my daughters lap on the way out and layed on my wife on the way back she is an 70 lb. golden retriever huge... I guese she made sure I was going the right direction anyway....
I untied the boat and got it off the trailer last night and it is yellow under all the oxidation, the straps had removed the oxidation where it was tied down, so she might still be a pretty boat... no pink paint this year.. my youngest Rachel will be sad oh welll..
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Posted: Apr 13, 2010 - 10:20 AM
sorry if i over simplified things... i left out a few steps
Well.. it goes like this:
notice excessive wear
ignore excessive wear until it becomes super excessive wear
go sailing one more time to make sure
bring boat to repair guy, ask him to slap on some epoxy/gel
pick up boat
go sailing
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Posted: Apr 13, 2010 - 06:10 PM
andrew does this include dragging boat across rocks , gravel to improve excessive wear???
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Posted: Apr 13, 2010 - 08:38 PM
if your in a hurry, you can "sling" some on too...
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Posted: Apr 14, 2010 - 11:47 AM
a distinction must be made whether to sMather on the epoxy or sLather it on (a part of "slapping" on some epoxy)
sMather is what you do at work.. smather some spackling on the dry-wall...
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Posted: Apr 14, 2010 - 12:09 PM
when sLathering, make sure to smear that stuff over the entire repair, or you will have to slap some more on making you a full slam day behind scedule.
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Posted: Apr 14, 2010 - 07:22 PM
If none of thoes 'tricks' don't work~~ "THROW IT ON" ~~
something's gotta work !!!!!!!
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Posted: Apr 15, 2010 - 04:34 PM
I would love to have someone help me look over the boat and tell me what I should replace and what looks okay. If you are in this neck of the woods let me know when and I am right of the thruway exit. I can give you my cell number but dont know if I should post it here?
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Posted: Apr 26, 2010 - 07:28 PM
Ted, Where are you located? I am in the Albany area. Pete
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