Gray Man, Inc.

[Rktpwrd]

I'm trying to keep an open mind. I think doing bodywork sucks but you make it look like no big deal.

That’s merely because you don’t see what goes on behind the scenes. The hours of obsessing over the metal work, prep, filling, block sanding and all that, it’s easy to make it look like nothing when the finished pictures are shown.
But I know you already know that.

Fiberglass is awesome and bodywork is fun!

Ahh, youthful enthusiasm! You will learn in time young Padawan.
😎😅

 

[Sweet_Johnny]

Ahh, youthful enthusiasm! You will learn in time young Padawan.
😎😅

It's been quite a while but I've separated a boat or two and really do enjoy sculpting things into shape. Fiberglass is just adult paper maché and what I like best is that you're only limited by your own creativity. Well, that and a tolerance for being itchy and sticky. I also find buffing to be meditative because I'm weird.

I'll never forget putting on a coat when I was completely covered in fiberglass dust. I had to toss that coat.

 

[Texas82GP]

All the floor structure has been laid in. Everything was coated in resin after being glued and screwed.View attachment 251086

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Bilge pumps are plumbed, pre-wired, and placed. There are access covers that go over the big holes.

The transom was actually a lot more solid than I had expected. The portion that needed attention had already been replaced (poorly) some time in the past. The new piece has 2 layers of mat on the exposed side. It'll get clamped, glued, and screwed after it sets up.View attachment 251088

I started roughing in the patches on a bunch of unnecessarily added holes. There's a lot of this phase left to do.
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After the big holes are patched, there's many hours of tedious grinding and filling spider cracks in the gel coat.

It's going to be a nice little boat. Is it a keeper or flipper? Is this still your dad’s winter project or did you move it back to your barn?

 

[69hurstolds]

Ahh, youthful enthusiasm! You will learn in time young Padawan.
😎😅

Bodywork? Fiberglass or steel, I'd RATHER change out a power antenna motor on a Cutlass. And I just hate the thought of doing that super-PITA job, even.

 

[DRIVEN]

It's going to be a nice little boat. Is it a keeper or flipper? Is this still your dad’s winter project or did you move it back to your barn?

For the time being, it'll be a keeper -- I doubt there's any profit to be had. It became his winter project by default so we're working at his house. He tries to get out there for an hour or two every day and did the lion's share of the work on the floor alone. I'm usually over there on Sundays and put in several hours.

This is mostly unfamiliar territory for both of us, so if you spot some obvious mistakes, no big surprise. Lots of help from YouTube University and reading old board forum threads. Things have the potential to get even more comical when I try to get the 65-year-old obsolete 2-stroke to run.

By total coincidence, I clicked on this yesterday morning. A little red Dorsett makes the B-roll footage and gets some recognition near the end.

 

[81cutlass]

Oh boats...

I am also in the IDK what I am doing boat ownership doom loop.

My boat project is currently in the phase where it looks decent and starts, but the fuel tank has some pin holes, the water pump leaks into the bilge, and it doesn't have the power to get on plane, and it needs a new prop.

 

[DRIVEN]

I can assure you, I went into this project knowing that it makes no financial sense. Worse yet, it was initiated for the shallowest of stupid reasons. A couple years ago I was riding with a couple buddies on a perfect summer day when we dropped down along Arrowrock Reservoir. I just looked down and saw how empty it was and thought, "Man, if I had a boat, that'd be alllll mine." And my CL search started 4 hours later.

 

[Ribbedroof]

Every time I think about a boat I remember the old saying about the two best days of boat ownership

 

[pagrunt]

Every time I think about a boat I remember the old saying about the two best days of boat ownership

Don't forget what boat means, Bet On Another Thousand.

 

[Texas82GP]

For the time being, it'll be a keeper -- I doubt there's any profit to be had. It became his winter project by default so we're working at his house. He tries to get out there for an hour or two every day and did the lion's share of the work on the floor alone. I'm usually over there on Sundays and put in several hours.

This is mostly unfamiliar territory for both of us, so if you spot some obvious mistakes, no big surprise. Lots of help from YouTube University and reading old board forum threads. Things have the potential to get even more comical when I try to get the 65-year-old obsolete 2-stroke to run.

By total coincidence, I clicked on this yesterday morning. A little red Dorsett makes the B-roll footage and gets some recognition near the end.

I'm completely ignorant on boats. I total support father/son projects!