Re: 1959 Glasscat Catamaran Project Underway.
Hi everybody, just time for a quick note. Hey ezmobee, Thank you for confirming my choice. I feel a lot better now. I was not sure what you all would say about the colors. I do value what you teach me. You keep me going, by the way. I mean it would be nice to lounge around the house one of these weekends instead of sweating out in the heat all day. (Not! I am really a glutton for punishment).
I would like to make one little correction. I mistakenly stated the color for the bulkhead stain as colonial pecan. It is actually colonial maple. I looked at the can today. I did not accomplish as much as I wanted to today as towards the middle of the day I was a little tired and very hot and in a moment of rectal inversion?.I spilled the majority of my brand new can of stain all over the dirt. Oops. :facepalm: (the expression, not the forum member). I then had an itty-bitty temper tantrum and the board I had be working on; somehow flew off my ?sawhorses? and out into the dirt and grass a few dozen feet away.
I swear; I do not know how it flew away like that. Next time I must hold it down with paper weights or something. Ahem, moving right along. So, I had wanted to mount some trim and base board planks today but my project got fubar quickly so I decided to stop versus do something I would regret later.
In the end today I repaired a little patch work on the hull and repainted some ?green?. I cut and installed the new port side bulkhead. I had mixed up my guide forms and I accidently cut the wall a little short hence the large triangular patchwork close to the hull. It was very hard to cut the walls to fit snug with the shape of the outer hull. I then applied putty into the seam. I applied the second coat of the spar urethane on the starboard wall panel. I urethane?ed the majority of port panel except the lower portion where the putty is drying, I will go back and sand and stain that portion later. I sealed the back and sides of both wall panels. I cut the trim panels and baseboards for the wall. I flung one of my trim boards in a moment of pique.
My little brother who just got his driver?s license last week went on a soda run for my dad and I (a win- win, we get a soda and he gets to DRIVE!!!and a soda of course) I gave him a few buks to buy the drinks and on the last turn into our street he punched the accelerator and spilled the drinks (diet thankfully) all over his car. When I heard this, I built him a wooden box (with dividers, about the size of a shoebox) that would hold the monstrously large buckets of soda that we sent him for, out of my scrap bulkhead wood and screws. I then stained his new soda box (the light maple color) and left it to dry. Next week maybe I will paint it with the spar urethane. It looks pretty and should hold 3 of the big cups snugly. I then went home. I had a very productive day but I did not accomplish all I wanted so I feel a little put off about the whole experience today. Oh well, there is always next week.
Lastly (but not least) to answer your question 62 Royal Scott, The blue/white was horribly faded and peeling and looked very terrible. When I decided to paint her, I could not afford the nearly 100 dollars a gallon stuff at west marine
so I read here on iboats about all the Rustoleum paint jobs and techniques for applying it, I decided to give it a shot, I do not have a paint sprayer. I went with the old Rustoleum Industrial out of Home Depot for $25 something a gallon. And applied with the roll and tip method. The oil based color palate was very limited and basically it was green, or safety yellow or safety red or black. Black being out of the question and the safety colors was very garish; by process of elimination green it was. (Also green is really my favorite color and if I had the money I still would have got some shade of it anyways). I kept the original two tone color scheme; and anywhere that was blue became green, and anywhere that originally was white got freshened up with high gloss white.
Hope that answers your question, and thanks for your kind words,
Sorry that my quick note became a huge post. I will try to shorten it up next time.
Good night all.
Hello iboaters,
