re: Garage Built Boat

How's the progress going Tim?

Figured it’s been a minute since I updated TD, but been slowly chipping away at the fairing process. Still undecided if how I went about the fairing application was right or wrong but since I don’t feel like things are going south I’ll call it a win.

My first cost of fairing I put on rather thick knowing that I had some pretty good high spots to fill inbetween from some of my fiberglass seams. This was going to be a catch 22 cuz it meant I would have a shite ton of unnecessary thickness built up in places but it also meant that most of my lows would be filled the first time and I wouldn’t be going round and round if fairing applications.

I would say that thought process worked well and the major reason it took me 5 months to apply and sand that first layer was the two months of 100 degree heat where u hardly wanted to go in the garage much less block sand an 18’ boat.

I think any lows I have to fill now are just ones that I accidentally sanded in myself when I was too aggressive with sanding in one spot but those should easily skim out.

I need to apply one very thin skim coat to fill some of the larger pin holes left behind in the first fairing coat, my hope is that skim coat will knock out and little dimply lows. The rest I’ll leave to the multiple coats of primer to slick out.

As my insta/fb update mentioned today I’m a bit tired of sanding so I think I’m going to pivot to fiberglassing on the poling strake and lifting strakes to the bottom.

Then I’ll start working in small sections to do the final fair in hopes that small sections will help me stay a little less overwhelmed and able to take my time sanding and focus on the detail finish.












Trying to use shadows to help me point out lows. These are tough to see now with the dull fairing compound but I think will be glaring once painted so putting decent amount of effort to address them now.




Examples of the pinholes that should get filled with the next coat of fairing. These are worse in the areas where I was first applying fairing compound because I hadn’t learned exacly what I needed to do to avoid making them.









The disaster area that I work in, it gets cleaned up about every other week but quickly returns to a similar state.

I’ve got a good bit of free time. Defintiely tying to hurry along before some of those time sucking things creep up on me.

But if you can fit an hour to go to the gym a few times a week then that’s probably about the amount of time I spend a week on this When I average it out.

Bump.

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too much bow vee to be a flats boat

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Uhhhh what?

Any recent update?

Finally… got to the point where I couldnt stand fairing anymore. And did one last coat of epoxy mixed with about 1/4 of the filler I normally use to make fairing compound and squeegees that all of the boat to fill most of my pinholes. Sanded that the next day. And rolled 1 coat of alexseal 302 high build primer then sprayed 2 coats of it.

Will be block sanding it tomorrow. Once finished block sanding I’ll leave the hull there and flip her over to start on the inside.

I’m having twins Thursday so my time to build will get cut back for a while so I wanted the boat to be at a stage where I could tinker with it here and there.

Wow. Looking awesome. I ask this only for my personal reasons. Are you somehow keeping up with the hours you are spending on this? I cant imagine the total number. Amazing work



And watching this from the computer screen has made me so happy that there are boat manufactures out there selling boats to me. No way I would have your determination. Id just buy some golf clubs.


Good luck with the twins...

I used to track hours but it just started to be one more thing to keep up with. I do have a track in spending for it.

If I had to guess I’m probably getting close to 1000 hours but who knows.