Re: boats on a budget
I'll check out that durabak stuff, my thought was to pant it with rustrolium, kind of working along the lines of keeping it low cost, from what I understand, you can paint over the gluvit.
doing another leak test isn't a bad idea, it's easy enough to do, and I have the boat well supported on the trailer now.
I was going to do some more wood removal on the boat today but got side tracked with another small job, fixing a computer for the guy with the garage .....that's how I came across the garage to paint the boat in, I'm going to try to get some more wood out of it tomorrow, as easy as it looks to get that wood out, it's not going so well, it's got years and layers of paint over the screws, they don't look like they were stainless steel, their all rusty, and I'm trying to remove the wood with out to much damage to it so I can use the old wood as a pattern for the new stuff, plus I'm trying to not damage the mounting hardware in anyway, it took me a good hour and a half or so just to get that front seat out of it.
I've read a few threads on using the oven cleaner, from what I've seen it's only references to people either having used oven cleaner, or are going to use it, but I haven't seen anything yet that shows the oven cleaner actually doing it's thing, so I figured I'd give it a try and post pictures here as I go, at least your going to know if it works, how well it works, and how hard or easy it is to work with.
This whole boat thing is new to me, I've never ventured into a project like this before, this is a learn as I go project. so I'll be the first to admit, I have no idea what I'm doing, that's why I'm so open to the ideas and suggestions you people have.
the other thing I'm not finding much information on is the slat flooring, that's the first thing I need to install in the boat after it's painted, and I'm not finding much info on how the pro's do it, so that's an area where I'll be winging it.
My guess is that I'll be able to strip, prep, gluvit and paint on the same day, once I get all the wood out of it, I may be way out in left field with with that prediction, but that's my best guess at this point. I figured with a heated garage, I should be able to finish the interior pretty quick.
I'm an all weather kind of person, so working in the rain and cold doesn't bother me, sometimes your best camping is during the winter months when no one else is on the mountain, and this boat will be getting used during the winter months, I really don't see anything I can't do to the boat in bad weather other then painting and wood staining, but I can do the staining in the house after I get the parts cut out.
these are just some of my thoughts.
Stuart
