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Maybe this is the wrong place for me. I look through people building yachts and restoring 100+ year old gaff cutters. and I am like "I fixed a skiff that probably already worked"
When I bought the boat the outside was covered in some unknown clear-ish substance (I am going ti guess spar varnish) that was peeling and offered no abrasion protection and the hull had some.. well abrasions. The bottom was epoxy/cloth covered.
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The sail slipped onto the mast and couldn't be lowered, the rigging was a pile in a bag that with no idea where anything went. But everything was solid which seemed a good place to start.
Over last fall I stripped exterior coating, filled the chips and cracks, epoxy coated the sides (sanding between coats because I could never time the coatings right), sanded, primed... and then waited. We had the coldest winter I can remember and it didn't get over 50 once between November and April here in the NW and the paint coating temp was 50. SO in the meantime I changed the sail to use hoops and figured out the rigging. Bought myself some nifty grommet tools from sailrite too. I couldn't do anything with the boat because I didn't want to mess up the primer. So my big question was what deck hardware would I need to handle the new rigging?
When it finally got warm enough I dug out the paint which I store in the house because my garage is unheated and went to work. Now I was short on time because I wanted to... well actually sail the boat this year so I repainted the bottom and the sides at the same time then went back for the trim. Everything worked great except I had barely enough white and the last coat on the transom sagged a little and I don't have anymore to redo it so I guess that goes in next years list. but overall it came out pretty good.
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Then I turned it over and did my first test of the new rigging and found that the boat had all the hardware for a man halyard and a place to attach the lower corner to the mast. From then on it was minor stuff like attaching a safety line to the rudder and daggerboard and repairing the chains on the trailer. Doing that I found that the chainbolts were soft and rotted/stretched out. the dry run of The new sail system seemed good though:
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if someone can tell me how to rotate an image in the forum editor I would be grateful.
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So now its all packed up and waiting for National Drunk Boater weekend to be over to hit the lake. Everyplace nearby is popular with wake board boats and I don't want to dodge waves while listening to "New Country" blasted from loudspeakers and cries of "Murica!!!"
When I bought the boat the outside was covered in some unknown clear-ish substance (I am going ti guess spar varnish) that was peeling and offered no abrasion protection and the hull had some.. well abrasions. The bottom was epoxy/cloth covered.
skiff pic.jpg
The sail slipped onto the mast and couldn't be lowered, the rigging was a pile in a bag that with no idea where anything went. But everything was solid which seemed a good place to start.
Over last fall I stripped exterior coating, filled the chips and cracks, epoxy coated the sides (sanding between coats because I could never time the coatings right), sanded, primed... and then waited. We had the coldest winter I can remember and it didn't get over 50 once between November and April here in the NW and the paint coating temp was 50. SO in the meantime I changed the sail to use hoops and figured out the rigging. Bought myself some nifty grommet tools from sailrite too. I couldn't do anything with the boat because I didn't want to mess up the primer. So my big question was what deck hardware would I need to handle the new rigging?
When it finally got warm enough I dug out the paint which I store in the house because my garage is unheated and went to work. Now I was short on time because I wanted to... well actually sail the boat this year so I repainted the bottom and the sides at the same time then went back for the trim. Everything worked great except I had barely enough white and the last coat on the transom sagged a little and I don't have anymore to redo it so I guess that goes in next years list. but overall it came out pretty good.
image_50457601.jpg
Then I turned it over and did my first test of the new rigging and found that the boat had all the hardware for a man halyard and a place to attach the lower corner to the mast. From then on it was minor stuff like attaching a safety line to the rudder and daggerboard and repairing the chains on the trailer. Doing that I found that the chainbolts were soft and rotted/stretched out. the dry run of The new sail system seemed good though:
image_67197953.jpg
if someone can tell me how to rotate an image in the forum editor I would be grateful.
image_67507713.jpg
So now its all packed up and waiting for National Drunk Boater weekend to be over to hit the lake. Everyplace nearby is popular with wake board boats and I don't want to dodge waves while listening to "New Country" blasted from loudspeakers and cries of "Murica!!!"
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