kapnD: I appreciate your advice. Your words are wise. I have considered the sunk cost. This is a legacy ski from my wife's 1980's 1990's era...
The ski was made in 1988. My wife recalls buying it in the later '80's -- early '90's. The previous owner apparently repaired a hole in the...
SamC You can do it! You have the building skills. But your design is like my design for a canvas and wood gunwale and stringer whitewater...
fallguy or others: I am here to learn not to critique, so please be patient. I believe that I sourced the Epifanes 2-part polyurethane finish...
kapnD: I appreciate your help. Hempel has quite a few marine coating products. Which product do you recommend? And although I will read the...
Update. Since I have decided to jump into the deep side of the gel coat pool. I used the morning to sandblast our garden tractor mower deck and...
Gentlemn, with great respect and thanks for all your help and with desires for your future help let me say this: kapnD have you ever applied...
kapnD (and ondarvr): Can you provide a link to a good quality two part boat paint? Because epoxy apparently does not have U.V. inhibitors, I...
Thanks guys! Pictures (good or bad) tomorrow evening!
Thank you for replying ondarvr For the hull should I learn to spray?
I bought two quarts of white gel coat and some surfacing agent from Fiberglass Hawaii out of Ventura, CA. After degreasing the inside of the...
Understood. Thank you fleix!
This morning is the time to clean up the work and clean up the weep holes and likely pull a few seam tape layers through the weep holes. So, if...
Blessings to you too @ondarvr My wife and I also live on the river. In our case the Sacramento River. I assume the Skykomish River in your...
Without getting too mushy ... you are a Blessing and your advice is a treasure. Thank you, I now know what to do.
The white spots are indeed photography artifacts from lighting except for the wrinkle over the exhaust hole. When I cut out the exhaust hole with...
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I did even more sanding after your post. I am a dumba$$ so I tried to use continuous pieces of cloth. This was the hardest glass work i have...
OK I got out the 4" angle grinder with a new 40 grit flat wheel on it and got serious. What do you guys think? Is it ready for layup? [ATTACH]...
Eh? Who says Canadians don't have a sense of humor? (Wife and I ate Mizithra cheese pasta at the Old Spaghetti Factory in Victoria in March....