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[KnottyBuoyz]

I just went back and flowed along from the original posts on this epic project. Super cool to watch the video on how you flipped her. That must have been a gratifying milestone. Hopefully I'll get to buy you a beer dockside and checkout the boat on the water one day.

Thanks sprintst. I've noticed a steady audience for that video on Youtube. It's all kind of surreal now. I look back at it and hardly remember it at all. The whole build is kind of that way. It certainly was a milestone. Thanks for watching though. Appreciate it.

After a day like today I'm wondering if I'll ever get this monkey off my back! Got my butt kicked right and proper today!

Tried to put two layers of glass & peel ply on the transom! Wet on wet they say. The 12 oz 0/90 went fine. I'm used to working with that. Next up was a 12 oz plain weave I have as a finishing layer. OMG! What a friggin' battle that was. It fought me every step of the way. It would not wet out. It would bunch up. It would bubble. It would fall off. It would wrinkle. After about an hour and a half struggling with it I finally managed to get it on half assed and the peel ply over it.

I don't think it's going to be too pretty. Luckily it'll all be hidden when the boat is done! Not my best work by any stretch of the imagination.

Pics & non-Sanding video tomorrow.

I need Rum & Coke!

 

[KnottyBuoyz]

you can never be too strong in the bow area.

Insert crude joke about wife's kevlar reinforced brasier here! :faint2:

 

[littlerayray]

Sorry to hear you had such a struggle hopefully the hydro therapy* will melt away the frustration


*hydro therapy (rum)

 

[KnottyBuoyz]

Here's the video evidence of today's butt kickin' in the boat shed! https://youtu.be/Py3jPELZiOI

 

[KnottyBuoyz]

Today I reluctantly hauled my butt into the boat to see the results of yesterday's glass session. Yanked off the peel ply and......

Not too bad. A few small bubbles. In places it looks dry but when you get closer it really isn't. I'm wondering if there was some treatment or sizing on the cloth that turned white when the epoxy hit it. A contaminant maybe.

Spent the rest of the morning splicing the starboard aft sections of stringers together.

Will load these up in the boat tomorrow. They're heavy!

Few more pics & nonsense on the blog update today. http://she-kon.blogspot.ca/2015/09/tran ... ngers.html

Thanks for lookin' in!

Cheers!

 

[littlerayray]

That's monumentouse the installation of the first stringers wow didn't think that would happen this year

 

[KnottyBuoyz]

So I'm cleaning up the stringers getting them ready to go in the boat. Spliced together and radius'd the top edge with router. Sanded etc.

I'm thinking to myself. That's always scary! I wonder if I could glass them before I put them in the boat? I've got a ton of that 33 oz triax left to use up. This might be a good opportunity to do just that. One layer and done! I'd peel ply them as well so no sanding later.

Pro's: I can work standing up, One less thing to do on my hands & knees in the boat

Con's: They'll be heavier to move, working outside is iffy if weather comes in

Thoughts? Ideas? Suggestions?

 

[Scott Danforth]

install stringer in boat
glass/tab in place

Woodonglass has a great sketch http://forums.iboats.com/forum/boat...1961-lonestar-flamingo-splashed-w-pics/page42

 

[KnottyBuoyz]

Probably the silliest thing you'll see on the ole' Interwebs today.

Some of you may have already seen this on Facebook this morning. I hit an area with the router where I spliced the two sections of stringer together and there was a lot of epoxy glue that oozed out. I got showered in schmutz!

Go ahead let me have it! I can take all your jokes! :lol:

 

[Woodonglass]

I REALLY like your HAT!!!!:happy::sad::frog::biggrin-new:

 

[KnottyBuoyz]

I REALLY like your HAT!!!!:happy::sad::frog::biggrin-new:

The wife makes those for me. Do Rags I think she calls them. She'll sell ya some. $5 each or 3 for $25.

 

[Mark72233]

They are a fashion statement for gang bangers. I wonder what gang Knottybuoyz is affiliated with. I couldn't come up with any funny gang names. Let me have one more beer and see if I can think of one . It's pretty cool that you are working stringers now.

 

[KnottyBuoyz]

http://www.sonsofarthritis.com/

*hehehe*

 

[littlerayray]

You don't look impressed

 

[64osby]

She'll sell ya some. $5 each or 3 for $25.

Ummmm, I'll take 5 of the singles please.

 

[KnottyBuoyz]

Got my head back in the bilge again. Today's chore was to put an extra layer of tape along the bottom/keel join.

Nothing spectacular but a few more pics on the blog update today: http://she-kon.blogspot.ca/2015/09/play ... ch-up.html

 

[Scott Danforth]

will you be bedding the stringers in this weekend?

 

[KnottyBuoyz]

will you be bedding the stringers in this weekend?

Gonna try. Well half of them anyways. Still got some work to figure out the engine placement etc. before I add on the extension & rest of the stringers.

 

[KnottyBuoyz]

Quick update.

The Stringers are technically 'in the boat'. Not installed but definitely 'in the boat'! Yesterday was a repeat of the day before. I taped the bottom/keel join & the very back end of the box keel. Ended up with a big bubble in the most inaccessible place possible. Right at the bottom at the very back of the keel. :facepalm:

I used the electric hoist to lift them in. They're about 80 lbs each. I could have humped them up the ladder but why bother when you have the equipment to do it for you!

Grinder Time!

Standby.....

 

[KnottyBuoyz]

There be stringers here! Web log updated: http://she-kon.blogspot.ca/2015/09/ther ... -here.html