So Here She is

[tartuffe]

Thanks Destroyer, its been a labor of love for sure!

Been a really busy few days. Painted the cap, painted the floor, started filling in old holes in console and shaped the mahogany for the dash and went ahead and made another hatch for the console glove box. I had to build a bracket to hold the hydraulic steering helm under the dash in order accomplish having a flush mount steering wheel to hide my old hynautic helm.

Cap paint I am very satisfied with, nice shine. Last time I painted the deck I used interlux brightsides with the non skid additive. It came out great, I guess to easy because this time I used Petite Easypoxy and did not have very good results. I am still contemplating if I want to try it again or just roll with it till I redo it in a couple years. I'll wait to get it out in the sun and see just how bad it is.

[SkunkBoat]

Skunkboat is very jealous of that black & white hull. Beautiful.

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Judging by the pic's i see more than a labor of love. Their is a very professional accomplishment here. Excellent job!

[bradford]

Looking good. I contemplated painting mine black on the hull sides with a white cap. Decided to go all white.

[tartuffe]

Thanks guys, it is actually Interlux Perfection Flag Blue, but it does look black in the pics. Looks like I'll be stripping and sanding the deck AGAIN....NOOOOO, that damn Petite Easypoxy is as soft as Boy George in a strip club. I can scrape it up in spots with my fingernail. My guess is that I put it on too thick.

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Call Petite tec support .

[tartuffe]

Just got off the phone with tec support, told him I painted on Sunday and that ithe boat sits on my carport. He said nothing is wrong, probably just put on too thick and to put it in the sun and it will harden up. Man I hope thats the case. The thing is that I astarted to run out on one of my hatches

If it is that will be good to know. Still have to buy another quart to fix the spot I hit at 6:30 this morning with the sander to see how bad it was going to be to get off

Even worse is that it came off pretty easily with 120 grit so I'm not a believer just yet.

[cterrebonne]

awesome job

[Night_Sailor]

Originally Posted by tartuffe

Thanks guys, it is actually Interlux Perfection Flag Blue, but it does look black in the pics. Looks like I'll be stripping and sanding the deck AGAIN....NOOOOO, that damn Petite Easypoxy is as soft as Boy George in a strip club. I can scrape it up in spots with my fingernail. My guess is that I put it on too thick.

Working my way backwards through this old thread. Do you thin that paint? I use Interlux Perfection and thin it 40% and have to lay down an extra coat, but it seems to work really well and is hard a rock.

[tartuffe]

Originally Posted by Night_Sailor

Working my way backwards through this old thread. Do you thin that paint? I use Interlux Perfection and thin it 40% and have to lay down an extra coat, but it seems to work really well and is hard a rock.

Hi Night, I kinda lurk on the forum so if it pops up I'll see it but anyway...the boat weight, I have no idea, I know its lighter than when I started the restore. The hatches and fuel tank cover alone went from 88 lbs to 33 with the foam cores. The whole deck was probably another 150 lbs less.

The boat tops out at around 44 knots with a 200 Evinrude spinning a 15x17 prop. I am sure it could do much better if I went to a 19 pitch but I enjoy being able to pull a wakeboarder out in about 3 seconds flat as well as stand it up in a nasty 3 foot chop in a 5 second wave period.

I did thin the perfection down to 10%, max thinning per instructions, it was still too thick and had alot of orange peel maybe 40% is the magic number, after 6 tries I just went ahead and sprayed it.

Thanks for the compliments, still trying to decide if I am ready to try it again.