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With the arrival of the son not being able to say one sentence without the word "fishing" in it ive decided im going to finish the repairs on "Kiona" our beloved family boat.
Here it is upside down on old tires,
I painted this boat myself some 7 yr ago, it was combination of 2 pack and a special marine paint thats was expensinve but ummmmm.... well the bloke saw me comming and I bought it!, you can see parts of the black have flaked off, all the 2 pack remains and is still hard.
So its a 2pack cammo and the black underside is the marine black, me thinking marine paint being the go for underwater. I installed my own LED strip lighting for the port n starboard lights and theres a 36W LED spotty mounted in front and below the bow sprit. its great for night travelling and crabbing in creeks, turns night into day to navigate the skinny shallow channels.
there was a big hole in the front, this was a small crack that I repaired over 10 yr ago, this boats been in the fam for a good 12yr now and had 2 repaints since its first rebuild. its a 1984 sportsman craft 149, 60hp etec. was a half cab but I converted it to this as the previous owner abandoned the project. I paid $800 for the shell n trailer. no floor, nor gunwhales and nothing on th inside, I rebuilt this over 2 yrs at leisure.
in this pic ive already stuffed carbon chop into the hole and the void left from the rotted timber I removed as well, its way deeper than the actual hole, the hole is where the Black hardened carbon is right in the middle of the repair, theres still a couple layers of carbon to go over this so those cast holes in the repair get filled!
Do you like the trailer gouges, river launching has its downsides and its usually the retrieve that does it!
This hole was only a crack from the boat sitting for over a year on the trailer, the roller has weakened and cracked the fiberglass letting water seeping in, over the year it was allowed to sit and rot, the small crack turned into a full blown dig out of the keel line where the timber under the glass had rotted,
Same as the other big hole, I saturated the , now dug out and dried rotten area" and stuffed it full of carbon fiber chop mixed with heaps of resin, the carbon dried super hard and the resin eventually seeps through and re hardens the rotted area as it too soaks up the resin, water proofing the whole underneath area of the repair.
So I then gathered what I could find, I only had a really thick 850gsm double weave fiberglass sheet and a small off cut from the carbon left over from the quad drifter.
I cut everything to size ready to layer over the hole thats already filled and cured with the carbon chop....Note" Im only using the carbon coz ive ran out of the thinner fiberglass sheet.
So the heavy glass is to build up the area above the carbon chop and the small carbon fiber piece will be to lay over eveyrthing to tidy it up before sanding in a couple days.
ill put some more pics up of the completed patch tomorrow but heres a look at my yard, the mrs is starting to crack up coz we now have 2 trailers taking up space in the yard and a camper trailer out of view and then the boats in the middle of the back lawn too!
Here it is upside down on old tires,
I painted this boat myself some 7 yr ago, it was combination of 2 pack and a special marine paint thats was expensinve but ummmmm.... well the bloke saw me comming and I bought it!, you can see parts of the black have flaked off, all the 2 pack remains and is still hard.
So its a 2pack cammo and the black underside is the marine black, me thinking marine paint being the go for underwater. I installed my own LED strip lighting for the port n starboard lights and theres a 36W LED spotty mounted in front and below the bow sprit. its great for night travelling and crabbing in creeks, turns night into day to navigate the skinny shallow channels.
there was a big hole in the front, this was a small crack that I repaired over 10 yr ago, this boats been in the fam for a good 12yr now and had 2 repaints since its first rebuild. its a 1984 sportsman craft 149, 60hp etec. was a half cab but I converted it to this as the previous owner abandoned the project. I paid $800 for the shell n trailer. no floor, nor gunwhales and nothing on th inside, I rebuilt this over 2 yrs at leisure.
in this pic ive already stuffed carbon chop into the hole and the void left from the rotted timber I removed as well, its way deeper than the actual hole, the hole is where the Black hardened carbon is right in the middle of the repair, theres still a couple layers of carbon to go over this so those cast holes in the repair get filled!
Do you like the trailer gouges, river launching has its downsides and its usually the retrieve that does it!
This hole was only a crack from the boat sitting for over a year on the trailer, the roller has weakened and cracked the fiberglass letting water seeping in, over the year it was allowed to sit and rot, the small crack turned into a full blown dig out of the keel line where the timber under the glass had rotted,
Same as the other big hole, I saturated the , now dug out and dried rotten area" and stuffed it full of carbon fiber chop mixed with heaps of resin, the carbon dried super hard and the resin eventually seeps through and re hardens the rotted area as it too soaks up the resin, water proofing the whole underneath area of the repair.
So I then gathered what I could find, I only had a really thick 850gsm double weave fiberglass sheet and a small off cut from the carbon left over from the quad drifter.
I cut everything to size ready to layer over the hole thats already filled and cured with the carbon chop....Note" Im only using the carbon coz ive ran out of the thinner fiberglass sheet.
So the heavy glass is to build up the area above the carbon chop and the small carbon fiber piece will be to lay over eveyrthing to tidy it up before sanding in a couple days.
ill put some more pics up of the completed patch tomorrow but heres a look at my yard, the mrs is starting to crack up coz we now have 2 trailers taking up space in the yard and a camper trailer out of view and then the boats in the middle of the back lawn too!
