Did you make your seat boxes?
Did you make your seat boxes?
Great job - earns my respect. It might be painful doing the grey coat, but I would - I suffer from galre terribly. Also the colour scheme will work with the red. Can match up cushions etc, with it quite well for a good finished look.
Well done. Ar eyou gonna send a post of everything you went through when it's all over ?
Looking great Blaze, I have that white and blue fleck finniinsh inside mine and the glare is just as bad.....always come home with a burnt underside from the reflection.
If I had the opportunity I would be repainting battleship grey and putting the grit grip down the middle for traction.
May the winds blow lightly upon your sails
May the seas buffet gently upon your hull
May your chiller be full of piscatorial delights
Heath
I made the seat boxes out of Klegcell , rounded front corners by putting 9 x 3mm cuts about 9mm deep in 12 mm klegcell and rolling the radius onto a ply top and bottom with bracing between the sheets to hold it all in place (need to put one 450g mat over the outside first to stop splitting, learn by mistakes), then it was glassed as much as I could inside and out, then removed bottom ply and frame, fitted backs, then glassed into boat.
Catchy Fish
probably put it all up onto myproject.com
bosumsmate
I think I may go with the light grey and leave the inside kill box and the sump and seatboxs white
cheers
blaze
Good going Balze. Yeah, the white's a real killer in the Whittley.......gonna have to put some ruibber mats down methinks.
kev
Contemplating suicide? Drink French polish. Horrible death, beautiful finish
G'day Blaze,
Great job, a lot of work and pride going into the project.
Only rub back the flow coat when the wind is blowing from the East, as it is making its way all along the Coast and the wife is complaining about the pink washing.
Keep up the good work Andy.
blaze, all thats left to do is drag her up to 1770
for the next m&g.....................]
lookin good,
dale
spoke to the minister of finaces Dale and sugest I may go to queensland again BUT with boat repairs blowin out (like they do) my niece (who I named my boat after) coming over from melboune for her first holiday on that very week and a trip later on to SA to do some house renos for my sister the answer was a very strong no, I think october/november will look more promising (I am coming back)
cheers
blaze
great job blaze, hope the flowcoat eventually went off, have done much the same, a little too lean on the catalyst and wait days for it to go off - any way of getting it go off quicker?
sam
One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce and canonized those who complain.
Thomas Sowell
I amhoping that by putting more wax (there is a chemical name for it, cant recall.) in the flow coat that will help. the info I have sussed out is because I am down to the last few inches in a 21kg drum it may not have been stirred well enough or the wax may have evaperated.
Today I spat the dummy and picked up 2kg of dark grey, add the extra wax (pobably not needed but not taking the risk) and redid the floor and come up trumps, couple of little lumps that will need a sand and a touch up but happier today. Once I am 110% on the floor I will mask out and redo the white adding xtra wax.
getting closer
cheers
blaze
great work blaze and thanks for the info on props
cheers
greg
Well I put a top coat on the outsside yesterday, looked a treat and then when I was about to put thesecond coat on a lot (6 on one side and 2 on the other) star light cracks appeared toward the rear upper sides (now where near any thing that was damaged in the wave accident) appears at some time its had a couple of heavy blows from inside the boat. (hopefully all ground out and repaired now)
cheers
blaze
Blaze can you feel a 4xxxx coming on .
First class work mate i certainly would not have the brains or the ability to undertake a job like yours.
Good luck when you launch her just watch out for that turtle.
Troy
quick question Blaze. I've been following your posts and thoroughly enjoying them. I know little about fibreglassing or boat building, but am interested to know if your hull will be lighter or heavier than previous and does it matter? If for instance it was heavier, would it improve or hinder the ride quality?
getting happier
all the painting is finished
only glassing work to go is the lid for the kill box (ahray)
before it goes for a swim
2 bolts to go in aux motor
2 bolts in each side bow rail
leads to run to second battery
latch to lock cabin door
gunnel rubber to go on
fill up and bleed steering (and hope it works)
final flow coat to kill box
this is just as much a note to ones-self as much as it is to tell others how I am going cause between ausfish and the boat I dont know where I come up with the time to sleep
weather forcast for saturday is crap but maybe they are 24 hours out as the a*se just fell outa the barometer
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