Here We Go Again

[strick]

Thanks Bobby thats what I thought. I must have misread the manual. Oh and your right. There are a bunch of wackos here in California

strick

[gerbil]

aluminum is fine in alameda county , not sure about contra costa (too many code changes around here) i just ran a 400' stretch at my shop , call herning underground supply in livermore, they'll hook you up with the wire and probably know the codes too.

Jeremy

[strick]

Thanks Jeremy-

I checked and it's OK with the building department so I'm trying to locate the wire now. Waiting on a quote from a supply house right now. I'll give the place in Livermore a call. I have 410 feet and we figured #1 aluminum would work for the 100 amp panel were putting in.

strick

[strick]

One year anniversary today. How bout a little fireworks.




Not much to report on the boat except more of the same stuff.... FARING AND SANDING. I managed to get the boat sanded and shot two good coats of primer on her inside and out over the last couple weeks. The fairing has consisted of mostly filling little blemishes and pin holes. I want the boat to look good when it's finished so I've been taking my time looking at the boat in all light conditions and adding fairing compound where needed. I'm sure some blemishes will get by me but hopefully you will have to look hard to find them.

Here are a few more pics:



The wire for the shop came in. Thanks goes to Bobby and Jeremy you saved me $$$ by going to aluminum and buying it from Herning supply. The other place was trying to rip me off they wanted $1700 for 1300 feet of #1 aluminum. Herning sold me 430 feet of triplex (three wires wrapped around) for $570. This is 1-0 aluminum so I ended up getting bigger wire for less money.




There were only a few more places that needed to be filled with fairing compound.



These areas will be spot sanded, primed and sanded again along with the rest of the boat. I have to do some cut outs for hardware and then it's time for some paint.

strick

[1bayouboy]

That looks great strick!!!!

[warthog5]

Chuck I see you have some blobs in very small areas as your filling stuff.

Go get you a box of single edge razor blades.[100 count box] Use the razor blade as as a spreader. when done chuck it in the trash.
This will keep from having filler spread all over where you don't want it and concentrate it where you do.

You will find it as a time saver.

[strick]

Dummy here has a whole box of razors but forgot all about that trick


strick

[gerbil]

herning is a great place, glad they saved you some money

Jeremy

[strick]

Time for an up date. I've managed to get a little done on the boat over the last couple weeks. I had a couple quarts
of awlgrip left over from my 23 project so I decided to go ahead and paint with that rather then Imron. This boat
will sit on a trailer most of it's life. The bottom is painted with a 50/50 combo Mattahorn white and Off white.




I got a nice hatch from TH marine. Cast aluminum and the lid comes completely off for easy access to the bilge were the seacock and one of the bilge pumps will be.




Cut outs for deck hardware:




Some of the hardware that will be going on the boat. The Accon LED bow light is really slick:



I used the gantry crane to slide the blocks and supports around so I could finish painting the bottom of the boat:




I was able to get the boat on the trailer by myself using the gantry crane:




It fits in the shop nicely:




My son caught this 13 pound catfish in the canal behind our house the other day:



He caught it plugging for stripers using a 1/2 ounce rattle trap on a ultralight pole with 4 pound test. Dad had to help him a little.



since I was able to get the boat in the shop I felt like I was on a roll so I decided to finish painting the outside
of the boat. The 545 awlgrip primer was sanded with 220 using a DA sander and hand blocked as well.

Masking it off:




tack coat applied:




Successive coats applied:




As you can see I was painting late in the day. Not a good idea. The bugs were not a problem but visibility was. I
could not use too many lights or my breaker would kick off because of the voltage drop with all my cords strung out from the house. At any rate I got it painted.

After Looking at the paint job in the sunlight the next day I decided that I could not live with the way it looked.

There were some areas that needed to be sanded more. Everything was nice and smooth however some of the areas were I added filler were too high and needed to be sanded down more. So I broke out the sander once again.




Then Re-sanded the entire boat and primed the areas that needed it:



Then back in the shop for re-painting:




It looks better now. Something I think I can live with.





strick

[Bryan A.]

Nice!!! Looks like you'll be ready for my Parker soon.

Love that color.

Tell your son nice catch from New England.