21 Hull #136...Restoration...Started

[Blue197320]

very very nice. how much to do it to my boat???

[Bryan A.]

Nice, where did you get that pickup??

[Islandtrader]

Nice, where did you get that pickup??

It is a gemlux product. Todds lures will get you a good price on it (forum member).

very very nice. how much to do it to my boat???

Not that hard to do. If you buy the pick up I will send you a outline of how to do it, with a copy of the template.

[76Red18]

Thats the answer to to all pick up problems! Low profile; won't snag anything or create much turbulence and best of all, the holes are small enough to keep out pump killing debris. Sweet!! I've got to get my azz across that harbor and see that 21 in person!

[todosier]

That is a beautiful job and a great piece of hardware. What are you bedding the pickup in? epoxy? 5200?

Tod

[Bryan A.]

Thats the answer to to all pick up problems! Low profile; won't snag anything or create much turbulence and best of all, the holes are small enough to keep out pump killing debris. Sweet!! I've got to get my azz across that harbor and see that 21 in person!

You are right, I have a clam shell pickup on my Parker that causes the Port engine to cavitate under certain conditions, that style would help alot.

[Islandtrader]

That is a beautiful job and a great piece of hardware. What are you bedding the pickup in? epoxy? 5200?

Tod

Thanks, right now I think I will do 4200 on the water side bottom and then use boat use Thiokol to fill the void in-between the wood and metal in the mounting pad. That way if I ever want to take it apart I will have a chance.

! I've got to get my azz across that harbor and see that 21 in person!

Come on up we are on the water so you can boat on down. 5 miles north of the Boca causeway.

[todosier]

Got it, I couldn't get my head around how to bed it in 5200 (or similar) and epoxy the block down. Duh, you can epoxy the blocks down and fill the void after.

I think you sold a numer of those pickups with that pictorial. I know I have the use for one!

Thanks,

T

[Islandtrader]

Even though it seems like progress is never very close I think I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

For the past few months I have been working on the top cap of the boat. Under normal circumstance's this would not be too difficult. However do to the amount of crazing and spider cracks the project has become monumental.

Grinding out all the stress and spiders was out of the question. So I decided to lay glass over the entire cap. If it was one flat area that would of been easy. But as you can see by the pictures there are a lot of curves and skinny toe rails.

What I did was use 4 oz. cloth and epoxy resin. This was the only weight that would contour to the tight bends.

Hopefully this will be heavy enough to keep the cracks from returning.



This type of spider on the top gunnel was cause by down riggers with no backing. Ugh.



Crazing and impact.





More Crazing





I think you can get the idea


Glass layup




This is the part that you had to babysit the curves and make sure there where no voids.

The front deck lay up easy...



After all lay up is done then I used a product called ProSeal EZ Coating System.

This is a two part component epoxy,a pre filled system for filling the weave in glass cloth. It is applied by roller and brush. I call it a liquid fairing compound.





Some Zebra strips...and now I will be sanding for the next week or two [img]/forum/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]




The good thing is the hull above the water line has very little in abuse and that should be a snap to get that done.

More to come as soon as I get it done

[strick]

Ouch thats a lot of work Terry but I think you made the right move by covering it.....you would have never been able to get it fair with all that grinding.

strick