"Wilbur Hubbard" wrote in message
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Skippy,

Thanks for the information. In spite of my usual bluff and bluster and
sarcasm I do wish you guys the best of luck with your repairs and refit.
What you've done with the bottom certainly can't HURT. I just hope it
rewards you with diminished future blisters.

You are one of the few people capable of not taking too seriously a bunch
of crap directed your way. To me that says 'intelligence'. It also says
'sense of humor' as well as 'self-confidence'. Would that more here
shared those wonderful and necessary attributes.


Wilbur Hubbard




Heh. In one of Bob's long-ago blasts, I turnethed away wrath, which
prompted a "gentleman of the year" award from him.

Life's entirely too short to get riled up - sticks and stones, etc. - and,
ever since, early on in my career, I had a "radical internal and external
hemorrhoidectomy" (TMI, I know, but that's the medical description of what
happened), I resolved to not let stress get to me, nor - and most
importantly WRT the current discussion - get fussed about something which
couldn't kill me.

Makes for an extremely long fuse, assisted by all those accolade-ish labels
you've attached which are correct.

You've seen, many times in the past, your satires appreciated, by me :{))

So, today we're up early, the better to apply the last bits of glass and hit
the startup phases of fairing, which will have us hit the very shallow
(nothing approaching 1/8" remains) holes, as well as those glass-repaired,
individually and then sand them down, before the wide-swath application
followed by long-boarding, which should also do a number on the prior
irregularities in hull shape.

As to the long-board fairing process, we'll be applying ~18" vertical
layers, interspersed with 18" blanks. Those blanks, when the applied areas
get "green," will form the riding surface for the ends of the LB. After
sanding the applied areas, we'll do the interiors and the sanded areas will
be the riding areas.

Following all that will be Dichomat, a stain, essentially, which, when
sanded, will reveal the low spots, which we'll spot and fair again, followed
by another LB over those. Repeat, rinse, until there aren't any, and we'll
start with the NLT 30 mils barrier coat.

Reality has it that, most likely, that will be gilding the lily, as all this
wide-knife application, unless we're rigorous about sanding down to the bare
fiberglass, will put a significant (in mils) epoxy layer on the entire
hull - but we're going to barrier coat, anyway :{))

The difference in the appearance of the starboard hull, which has been
glass-faired, is stunning. I can't wait for the patching fairing results,
which should be orders of magnitude better, even. I'll have pix of the
process later, in the currently-without-thumbnail part of the refit section
in my gallery (link below).

Long job, but it sure is rewarding to me, the guy with infinite patience -
Lydia, the "Lord give me patience, and I want it RIGHT NOW" lady, not so
much, but even she has enthused over the view.

So, while the patches we'll put on the starboard are curing, we'll do the
last of the layup on the remaining single area on the port.

Marvelous to see the end in sight!

L8R

Skip

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