1973 Spectra 20 Jet

« **Reply #25 on:** February 16, 2014, 04:47:41 PM »

Quote from: CauseforDivorce on February 15, 2014, 08:57:47 AM

Another

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Nice job on the transom.

« **Reply #26 on:** February 18, 2014, 05:40:41 AM »

Dug out more cracks.

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« **Reply #27 on:** February 18, 2014, 05:42:17 AM »

Here they are.

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« **Reply #28 on:** February 18, 2014, 05:46:29 AM »

Still filling some spots with a fine kitty hair (very thin).

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« **Reply #29 on:** February 18, 2014, 05:54:26 AM »

Shot a high build primer. Used Evercoat Feather Fill. This stuff is great. Its a sprayable filler for fiberglass with a catalyst like bondo and you can only thin it 10% with acetone.

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« **Reply #30 on:** February 23, 2014, 08:39:14 PM »

The boat paint layout looks awesome. As far as the additives for the plastic bumpers, when I used to paint cars we didn't use any of the additives as the paint has some flex in it. The additives didn't seem to help. This was 8 years ago. If the glass cracks the paint will crack on top of it. If you have someone helping you and has used a good one then maybe they are better today. Any catalyzed paint should give you a great job. Are you doing base and clear? Put all you striping under clear too. Keep the pics coming.

« **Reply #31 on:** February 26, 2014, 01:57:57 PM »

Using single stage urethane. 74 ford white. Cure, stripes and then scuff. Urethane clear over entire boat.

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« **Reply #32 on:** February 27, 2014, 12:50:41 PM »

That is how I paint it. The clear will help protect everything under it and gives you a chance to fix any imperfections in the colors. Should look great for years to come.

« **Reply #33 on:** February 27, 2014, 01:30:14 PM »

Yep that works really well

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« **Reply #34 on:** February 28, 2014, 03:41:31 AM »

Blocking seems to be never ending...

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« **Reply #35 on:** February 28, 2014, 03:43:52 AM »

Pics

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« **Reply #36 on:** February 28, 2014, 05:27:24 AM »

That's looking good

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« **Reply #37 on:** March 04, 2014, 03:51:09 AM »

Final primer sealer coat on everything vertical...now for the bow. The bow is very wavey. Lots of building and blocking left to be done still but will be in the booth saturday for the white.

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« **Reply #38 on:** March 04, 2014, 07:34:17 AM »

I had some help...He slept good last night...hahaha

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« **Reply #39 on:** March 04, 2014, 09:51:24 AM »

Looking good

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« **Reply #40 on:** March 04, 2014, 10:55:19 AM »

hurry up and finish so i can bring mine over next.

great work so far!

« **Reply #41 on:** March 04, 2014, 03:27:28 PM »

Thanks,
This was way more than I expected and still not perfect. Its 100 times better than it was for sure... This boat had a lot of pin holes and cracks in the gel. Some places like the top areas off the boat which would be the bottom of the mold, were very heavily loaded with the red gel. Some areas were super thin on the sides to 1/8" or better in the low spots in the mold. Where ever I sanded to bare glass there was air bubbles, could explain the horrific amount of stress cracks.
If I had it to do over again, I would wrap the whole boat in one layer of glass and build from there.

« **Reply #42 on:** March 04, 2014, 03:43:18 PM »

Quote from: ka0tyk on March 04, 2014, 10:55:19 AM

hurry up and finish so i can bring mine over next.

great work so far!

Anytime! I'm starting to get the hang of this. Practice Right

Maybe after this my Dad will let me do his 69' Corvette

« **Reply #43 on:** March 09, 2014, 10:19:39 PM »

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« **Reply #44 on:** March 11, 2014, 02:01:22 PM »

Partly painted

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« **Reply #45 on:** March 11, 2014, 02:22:56 PM »

What do u have the boat sitting on ? I'm need to get mine off the trailer to do the bottom

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« **Reply #46 on:** March 11, 2014, 06:00:41 PM »

Quote from: stierney11 on March 11, 2014, 02:22:56 PM

What do u have the boat sitting on ? I'm need to get mine off the trailer to do the bottom

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He used a boat dolly.

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« **Reply #47 on:** March 11, 2014, 10:13:05 PM »

Didn't really think about it at the time but that looks scary now that I see a picture of it..

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« **Reply #48 on:** March 12, 2014, 09:40:27 PM »

Back to blocking...

Found some bad spots, On the first coat, I found more small stress cracks on the top of the gunnels. Filled them and blocked the whole boat. Also got some more waves out of it that showed up with a nice gloss coat. Bought more paint and going to do it again tomorrow after work. This time all the crap is gone I'm sure...YEA RIGHT!
Hopefully this time will do it. I made a mistake by shooting white over gray laquer primer surfacer, should of tinted it white. I went through 7.5 qts of mixed material and it didn't cover all the way. Now the boat is sealed and I think 3 qts will finish it.
Then finally after 340 hrs of stripping, grinding, glass work, sanding, building, priming, blocking and painting I CAN GO ON TO SOMETHING ELSE

Not to mention approx. 12 cases of beer! I think I will be keeping this boat for a while...

« **Reply #49 on:** March 16, 2014, 08:08:02 AM »

Base white is done. Iwas able to get about 90% of the waves and low spots out of it and it looks like I got all of the stress cracks for now. Time to scuff and do the stripes.

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