Tidbit getting dressed for the spring dance.

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

Volvo was getting serviced this morning so I figured I would get to work on Tidbit.

The main issue was trying to abate the usual flood from launching and swelling up.

Getting ready,

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m320/fosterhere/photo-1515.jpg

thanks to Jamestown.

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So this year I worked the bottom. I scraped all the dried and old compound out.

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m320/fosterhere/photo-2473.jpg

So here is my unconventional method. I took plumbers putty and mixed it with bottom paint. Estrer Make had made mention that plumber putty is basically dolphinite only cheaper

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[Paul Pless]

B&R? :p

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m320/fosterhere/photo-1523.jpg

Stuff worked like a charm

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m320/fosterhere/photo-1713.jpg

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Ta da

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m320/fosterhere/photo-856.jpg

A little Bow work

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m320/fosterhere/photo-1935.jpg


Ta da

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m320/fosterhere/photo-1835.jpg

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

Paint the topsides and bootstripe and call it a day

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m320/fosterhere/photo-1054.jpg

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

B&R? :p


Eventually I like to let them marinate in the bilge a little ;)

[paladin]

Ya know, Joe, that the bottom and topsides look a little rough. Have you considered maybe stripping the hull and fiberglassing it, or maybe cold moulding some veneers over it then a few layers of xynole fabric.....and it will look slick as snot all year.....

[Paul Pless]

don't listen to him joe... epoxy is crap

[Nanoose]

let's discuss Paul's "epoxy is crap" thesis, shall we? :rolleyes:

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

Hey where is the move the thread option ????? :(

[Russ Manheimer]

Joe,

The bottom paint and seam compound mixture is a time honored solution to Sjogin's various ills.

Hope to get a ride this Summer.

[Captain Intrepid]

Ya know, Joe, that the bottom and topsides look a little rough. Have you considered maybe stripping the hull and fiberglassing it, or maybe cold moulding some veneers over it then a few layers of xynole fabric.....and it will look slick as snot all year.....

Talk about overdoing things! Just slap some bondo on and call it a day.

[john l]

joe - try to fill that horizontal check in the deadwood a little better. i found
that the water traveled that check into bilge. when i filled the check i had much less water in the bilge. you made a nice fillet of goop between deadwood and garboard, but you should press that goop into the crack that goes under the fillet. looking good. hows that rub rail on the other side coming?

[Hwyl]

let's discuss Paul's "epoxy is crap" thesis, shall we? :rolleyes:

Forum in words, you'll get it.


Epoxy is crap, by the Great John R Smith (http://www.woodenboat.com/forum//showthread.php?t=2553)

[Mrleft8]

Woulda been nice to see a picture of the rubrail repair......

[oznabrag]

Woulda been nice to see a picture of the rubrail repair......

Soooo.....I'm guessin' that'd be on the other side of the boat?:D

John T

[Mrleft8]

Soooo.....I'm guessin' that'd be on the other side of the boat?:D

John T

Betcheright! ;)

[oznabrag]

I bet he didn't even paint that side.:rolleyes:

[Mrleft8]

I bet he didn't even paint that side.:rolleyes:

I bet the repair int done yet.

[paladin]

He just painted the side the camera was on......

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

Got a little help from a friend this weekend on that ;) Photo's to follow

Now I got to figure out a way to move this thread topside after marination in the bilge ;)

[Clinton B Chase]

Hey Joe. She looks gorgeous. I'd love to visit you guys when we are in Garrison this summer.

Clint

[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

Hey Joe. She looks gorgeous. I'd love to visit you guys when we are in Garrison this summer.

Clint


Come on by, how good are you at checking fasteners ;)

[Mrleft8]

Still no pictures of that $10.75 rubrail repair?...... Watzamaddah? You a sissy? C'mon Nancy boy! Post da pics!!!!!

[The Bigfella]

Hey Joe, you've got to work on that technique for mixing the seam compound...

I normally use a paint mixer btw, but sometimes....

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