Saturday, October 23, 2010

Interior Painted

Painted the interior with Bilgekote an Enamel that stands up to oil mildew gas great stuff. Also painted the boot a second coat had some help From Samantha my youngest and then pulled the top tape will pull the bottom tomorrow along with 1st coat of black for the rail.







Friday, October 22, 2010

Sealing Interior


Only have a couple of pics today here they are of the interior getting coated with The sealer mixed with a small amount of paint. Will have the interior painted by tomorrow evening. Thanks for watching.

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Build a Skiff: Drain Plug Tubes and Triming

Build a Skiff: Drain Plug Tubes and Triming: "Well here are some more pics from last night wanted to get the drain plug tubes drilled out and glued in so grinding and painting can start..."

Drain Plug Tubes and Triming


Well here are some more pics from last night wanted to get the drain plug tubes drilled out and glued in so grinding and painting can start on the interior. Also have cut the transom framing down the stem and the frames and but splice pieces so they are flush with rail. Will get some more pics up and an update this evening thanks for looking








Wednesday, October 20, 2010

22 ft Lady Bug Skiff Flipped

Well here we are just flipped her over. Was a bit concerned about the beams in the shop but they handled it with a little creaking. So here are the picks time to cut the frames transom butt splices will take pics and post later tonite or tomorrow Hope you are enjoying.








Monday, October 18, 2010

Painting the Boot

Hello all for some people who are not familiar with the term "Boot" this is the painted on line above the waterline usually it is a contrasting color between the bottom paint and hullside paint here in the photos you can see the first coat of  gloss white boot paint going on our green hull. With the Black Bottom paint the white boot i think a Black rail will look nice with the Jade Green Hull. Kinda a nice commercial looking skiff. When i arrived at the shop tonite i planned on taping the boot off flipping and then painting but ran out of steam and said will flip tomorrow and just paint the boot tonite. Usually I Tape the boot flip the boat and then paint that way the paint runs down onto bottom paint that will get touched up and not on the hull but i did ok and had no spatter or runs. Well hope you are enjoying this build will be moving it out as soon as it gets flipped have to start another 22 right away.






Sunday, October 17, 2010

Paint The 22 Skiff Final Coat

Here is the second coat i let the 1st coat set up overnight 12 hrs or maybe more, Scuff with scotchbrite pad red color, Wipe down dry then with thinner, Roll and tip the final coat people say it is as nice as gelcoat I tend to differ but it great for a work Skiff.