Took the day off

Yesterday I took the day off. Went to Timmies for a coffee. Drove down by the river and watched some ships go up bound. Picked up some groceries. Did the dishes. Made the Admiral her dinner and just vegged. Dunno why just wasn't really motivated to work on the boat. It was a nice day just to do nuttin'!

Back at it today though. This morning started with an hour and a half sanding the stbd side (aka The Landing Strip) of the bottom that I didn't get finished the other day. After that was done I cleaned off the port side bottom panel (aka The Bowling Alley) and spread out just over a half gallon of Quikfair. I'd guess the total area was about 80 sq ft. This will cure today and get sanded down tomorrow.

I finished up this section about noon and headed in for lunch. It was about 90 degs in the shed when I quit. I know, I'm a pussy.

Standby....

Just a brief update

Yesterday I Quikfair'd the stbd side bottom panel from just behind the bow thruster to the end of the keel. That area is pretty freakin' big. I had originally intended to do the entire side but by the time I got to the end of the keel (about 95 degs in the shed) the Quikfair was kicking off on the mixing board so I called it a day.

Today I sanded the fabric edges along the port side of the keel in prep for Quikfair on that bottom side panel. Weather seems to have cooled a little bit so I'll take advantage of that and try to get it all done. The rest of the day I sanded the Quikfair I put on yesterday.

The tools of the trade (sorta).

Standby......

Not a whole lotta action

in the ole' boat shed this week. A bit of fairing & sanding etc. Then today my buddy Peter showed up all the way from Montreal for some nostalgic boat sanding. It was very very nice to have company in the shed for a change (other than a cat or two that is). With little fanfare and little chit chat he got right to work sanding! First out he hit the sides with the Flexicat and when that was done he jumped right up on top of the boat and started sanding the bottom! :-)  The man is a sanding machine!

I even tried to coax him down with medicinals and tributes of tobacco but he would have none of it till the job was done!

Thought to myself I just have to capture some of this action and preserve it for future generations. This is a true craftsman plying his trade! At least he said he was having fun.

By 13:00 hrs or so it reached 95 degs and we had to pull the pin. Sanding was done but too warm to spread Quikfair. It was only then he relaxed and enjoyed a cool brewski.

Many thanks to Peter. People like you are too rare and too far between.

Yours Aye!

Brother in sanding dust

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's day to me! :-)  Miracle of Miracles the Princess Auto Father's Day flyer finally showed up in my email. Went to see the Admiral and said: "I been thinkin'!"  This usually results in her replying: "Uh oh!"  To which I replied: "Seeing as it's Father's Day and the Princess Auto flyer just happened to arrive I think I should treat myself to a quick trip to see what they got!" To which she replied: "You're not going unsupervised."  So away we went!

The intent was to pick up an inline air dryer (desiccant) and some gizmo's for my primer rig.

I got this HVLP spray gun from TCP Global on eBay. It was the only one I could get with a 2.0 nozzle suitable for the primer. Every place I looked around here topped out at 1.5 which is just a wee bit too small for the high build epoxy primer I will be using. It wasn't overly expensive. With shipping and taxes probably $70. The sprayer stand was another $15.

An while wandering the many isles of manly man cave stuff I spotted this lil' gem. Made in China (figures) and will likely die a horrible death at my hands but..........

Now I had not originally intended to buy it, honest but the sale price of $40 was too good to pass up. A small gamble at this point in the game. If it's a POS well I won't loose much. I can probably get half that back at the 'End Of Boat Building Shed Sale'.  :-)  We'll see how it does. It'll max out my compressor so duty cycle will probably be pretty short, couple of minutes tops before I'll have to pause for the compressor to charge up again. I've got enough pressure just not quite enough volume of air to keep it moving constantly.

I've dress the fabric edges where they overlap the chine onto the bottom panels. I've got a bit more sanding to do along the keel overlaps and I'll be ready to spread the rest of the Quikfair on the bottom. I picked up my order of 3 gallons on Saturday. That stuff is spendy but I'm paying for the convenience I guess.

Production TW28 in Turkey

Was shown this link today. A company in Turkey is producing the TW28.

Kuzey Ege Yatç

Here's the brokers listing.

NORTH AEGEAN TRAWLER 30 - WEEKENDER

At today's exchange rates it works out to:

$74,400 USD
$80,750 Cdn

Of course I had to photochop the picture of it to see what it would look like with the hull extension I did on our hull.



I'm liking that!