Zach Matthews
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Second coat with the roll-and-tip method. For those who may ever follow in my footsteps, I got two complete coats on the exterior of my Highsider with one quart of Interlux Brightside thinned by 5% in regular mineral spirits. It looks great. I am just going to do one more coat for complete coverage and it’ll be ready to flip and reattach the rails. Most likely that will be this Sunday.
Zach
We saw the show in New Orleans at the retailer show, but it was in a (very cool) bar with big chandeliers which obscured the actual projection screen, so I feel like I only saw about half of it.
Zach
I’ve sanded the lint left in the paint on the first coat by the rollers out with steel wool, and addressed the worst of the paint runs. I’ve got foam cabinet rollers for rolling the second coat; the roll and tip method has been working great but I was using only the cheapest rollers before.
(a) I like red, (b) because the other two boats we’ve worked on are green and blue respectively, and (c) because I think it looks good.
Zach
Chris, I also need to mention that I really learned most if this by piggy backing off Andrew Wright’s research and skills. My construction abilities are basic at best.
Zach
Chris –
A lot of people have asked about the weight given that I used wood. I used 1/2″ marine ply in my boat and it does add some weight, but a sheet of 4X8 1/2″ marine ply is only about 37 lbs. (http://www.boulterplywood.com/MarinePlywood_4.htm)
I ended up cutting three sheets for mine but had more than a sheet and a half left in scraps and odd pieces. Thus I probably added about 55 lbs. in wood to my boat. My wife and I picked it up and flipped it onto the sawhorses for painting yesterday.
I used about 2 gallons of epoxy in my boat. A gallon of epoxy should weigh close to a gallon of water so figure I added about 8 lbs./gal or in my case 16 lbs.
Fiberglass cloth has a negligible weight. A couple quarts of paint might add another 4 lbs. Those are the only things in my boat: wood, epoxy, glass and paint.
I don’t have the right kind of scale but based on that math and a starting weight of 110 lbs. for the boat (with seats), I think my boat weighs right around 170-180 lbs., conservatively. I can pick it up off the cradle from either end of the boat no problem.
Given that Gheenoes are rated for 675 lbs. and the weight is well-distributed, I don’t expect it to affect performance much beyond maybe dropping my waterline about 1″ or so unloaded. My personal weight of 165 lbs. also means I recover quite a bit over someone who used to be a linebacker; as I have fished in Andrew’s boat with nearly the same configuration with three people, I am not worried about weight. The only difference between my boat and Andrew’s is that I put wood and glass on the floor, but I have a LOT less wood concealed up under the decks too. I bet my boat is within 20 lbs. of his.
Zach
Sanded and ready for primer:
Primer coat:
Today I will level any runs in the primer with 220 before painting the first coat of red. I am using the roll-and-tip method. I’ll be able to wet sand any runs in the first coat but I need to get the second coat right. Fortunately this is, after all, the bottom of a boat, so the sides are the most important thing and they aren’t very big.
Zach
