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<\/a><\/p>\nI decided to go with pettit ‘Black Widow’. This is a Hard bottom paint, a non ablative. it’s loaded with stuff to make it polishable and slippery. And spiders, I guess.<\/p>\n
The advantages are that it won’t rub off all over my tailer bunks, and It also is one of the few non-ablative bottom paints that doesn’t loose it’s anti-fouling properties if you take it out of the water.<\/p>\n
To use on bare wood, They recommended a wipe down with brushing thinner, then a primer coat that has been thinned 25%.<\/p>\n After primer, I had to pay out the seams with seam compound. I also decided to use this to fill the screw holes. I’m uncertain on how I feel about this decision, after having done this.<\/p>\n Then, it was three thin coats, applied with a 1\/8 foam roller. I was agonizing over and analyzing the weather to make sure I got at least tolerable conditions for this; as this time of year it can be really hit or miss, with the rain and the short days and cold damp nights we get. Fortunately, i managed to get a few good days and get it done. i was worried at first, but once the second coat came on it really started to look good. I’ve decided to not burnish or polish it at this time; I’m just getting it in the garage now so it can cure over the winter and then I will burnish it in the spring before launching.<\/p>\n And now it is back in the garage; The den of sweet, sweet, independence from the weather.<\/p>\n While it was outside on it’s side, I took advantage of this and also addressed the dock rash it had on the side.<\/p>\n I tried to get it close, but a little proud by using this HDPE offcut.<\/p>\n It went pretty well. Once I start faring and sanding and prepping for paint i’ll work this with the sander and it should look like it never happened.<\/p>\n I also found that the stem had issues I wanted to fix. You see, there are two options for doing a stem on this boat. one is to carve it out of a single piece of wood, the other is to do it in two parts and screw them together. This boat was built with a two-piece stem.<\/p>\n However, the two pieces were fit with a gap and held together with too-short brass screws. The brass had de-zinked, and the fairing compound shoved in between had mostly cracked and fallen out. so, I went to 1″ longer silicon bronze screws, and bedded it in with epoxy thickened with sillica. it turned out well, and i think it will be plenty solid.<\/p>\n Now that it is in the garage, I’m going to resume the last of the carpentry and then it’s time to start painting.<\/p>\n A huge shout out to the guys who showed up to help me get it back on the trailer. Couldn’t have done it without you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" there’s been not alot of posting, but alot of progress nonetheless So to recap: I did a solvent wipe of the entire bottom with brushing thinner. I decided to go with pettit ‘Black Widow’. This is a Hard bottom paint, a non ablative. it’s loaded with stuff to make it polishable and slippery. And spiders, Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-repairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/teammonkeyfist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n