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Gullwing bottom detailing
« on: August 02, 2009, 04:10:06 PM »

Wax on Wax off, wax on wax off:

Since the engine is  still out of the boat I thought I'd take advantage of the opportunity to do some long awaited detailing:






Long time friend Ron Segni oversees the operation and gives directions. Ron raced several Gullwings over a 12 year period and won 9 Championships over that 12 year's. He knows a thing or two about GW's. Although the strakes were pretty straight the bottom had high and low spots in it and some hook on the drivers side.






Area of detail defined: 4ft up each side and 4ft in-front of the intake:



Sand, fill,measure, sand, fill, measure, sand, fill, measure, sand, fill, measure. You get the idea:



Getting closer to perfect today, but I'm getting tired of the sanding:



The baseline for the boat is 99.8 mph at 6,200 no Nos full tanks. 108.6 mph at 6,800 on the Nos. Hopefully the detailing will get the boat to 102-104 off the Nos. We'll see sometime this Summer.

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Re: Gullwing bottom detailing
« Reply #1 on: August 02, 2009, 04:30:34 PM »
 99.8 MPH thats a good MPH looking for a little more I see ;D  BTW nice engine hoist. keep us updated.

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Re: Gullwing bottom detailing
« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2009, 07:46:07 AM »

I'm not going to say it will be free mph but the detailing should free up mph. The question is " How much" ?

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Re: Gullwing bottom detailing
« Reply #3 on: August 08, 2009, 08:09:07 PM »
Progress... almost done:



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Re: Gullwing bottom detailing
« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2009, 12:25:07 PM »
Right on John , when is the wet test?
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Re: Gullwing bottom detailing
« Reply #5 on: August 09, 2009, 01:38:21 PM »
 Somebody hard at work looks great  :thumbup:

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Re: Gullwing bottom detailing
« Reply #6 on: August 09, 2009, 11:09:52 PM »





Mark, Hopefully in a couple of weeks it will see the water and all the work will have paid off.

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Re: Gullwing bottom detailing
« Reply #7 on: August 10, 2009, 02:28:29 AM »
what did you paint that with? I assume you primed first?

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Re: Gullwing bottom detailing
« Reply #8 on: August 10, 2009, 05:42:19 AM »
what did you paint that with? I assume you primed first?


See step #15 in the first post.

http://www.socaljetboats.com/index.php?topic=5537.msg75976#msg75976
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Re: Gullwing bottom detailing
« Reply #9 on: August 11, 2009, 07:55:09 PM »
what did you paint that with? I assume you primed first?



After sanding with 150, acitone and then light coats of Krylon Satin Black until paint color is even.  After paint dried for two days we did a  very light  cross-sand with 220 grit.

Crewchief, nice post of the Jeff Bennit write up. Thanks.

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