re: 35’6” Razorhead Cat Build

I was at gulf island

Maisweh we probably know each other as well. Nav arch is a small community.

Heck yeah, that will do it. Experiment with the hardener and acetone. Use the biggest tip the compressor will handle let it sit for a few minutes and can respray over and over laying it thick as long as it is still tacky. When u are about done load up last coat with extra hardener. At least that's how I did it.

Good thing is you don't have to sand nearly as much to get it to start shining. But still have to sand it's just not as much and I felt was much much more even.

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I'm an idiot I didn't even tell you most important part I'm sry hope your small job went well.

But that final coat when I put a bit more hardener in the last cup that's when I added wax. So need a waxless gelcoat and very last coat when u put a extra few drop or two in the cup add your wax and then spray that last coat B4 you close up shop for that piece for the day. And wet sand the next day

Yep. Not a nav arc though.

Who dis

Your initials JD?

Been working on the seachests and livewell plumbing this week. Got the port seachest entirely complete minus the acrylic top and the starboard seachest out of the mold needing interior fair and gelcoat.

Livewell plumbing has all drains and fills cut and dry fit.

The boat will have a starboard and port seachest with 2 1500 rules in each.

Port seachest will feed port 40 gal livewell and main 100 gal livewell. There is also a selerate drain in the main livewell that ties back into a valve on the port seachest that allows to recirculate the water on the main and port livewell by opening the valve in the seachest tied to that drain and closing the main port 2” pickup. Shout out to CP3 for hooking me up with an aluminum 2”npt x nps threaded nipple for the thruhulls.

Note that all thruhulls fittings and valves are truedesign composite fittings. These valves are rated for a 500lb force applied to the end of the valve when mounted in their composite thruhull with load collars. We went with these for two reasons. One it solved our problem of the dissimilar metals on aluminum and two the valves should never corrode into any one position.

The starboard seachest will feed starboard small livewell as well as main livewell. In place of the recirc valve the starbiard seachest will feed the wash down pump.

Next thing to attach is fabricating a shelf for the seachest to sit on and then moving to insulating coffin boxes, fish bixes, and inseat ice chests.

Pics of progress below.

Port box out of mold (you should have heard me yell when it popped loose)


Port box trimmed up


Plumbing layout (imagine the starboard box)


Starboard box out of mold mold paying off


Port box plumbing. Don’t judge the inside gelcoat finish. I just didn’t think it necessary tj spend a bunch of time applying coats of gel and sanding ti perfect finish to be boxed up.
Port box done (will post when acrylic top is bolted up)

Holy crap those boxes look good. How tdid the spray gelcoat work for you? A little simpler to apply and sand even if a bit more messy?

Unfortunately because I finished the boxes in Louisiana and not at my house in Houston I didn’t get to try my spray rig out.


But I found that using a 3” foam brush And thinning the gelcoat about 10% with styrene I was able tj get wayyyy better results than before (but I imagine had I sprayed it would have been siginfifantmy better)