Category: Wooden Boats

Thank you, thank you, thank you! My friends and neighbors from Puget Island and Cathlamet, this is how we make a boat turn right on her keel! [flv width=”400″ height=”300″ flashvars=”bufferlength=30″]https://www.welcomesloughboatworks.com/images/Pelicano_Flip_Web_400.f4v[/flv]

I spent today getting her ready to put right side up on her keel. As you can see, I can already lean on her. Tomorrow is the big day. Started at 2:00 pm and ended at 5:00 pm.

Today is my little brother Paul’s birthday! From 6:00 am to 8:00 am: I put the 2nd coat of green paint on and rolled on a heavy coat of epoxy to the transom. Then I went steelhead fishing with a couple of pals. From 4:15 pm to 6:00 pm: I sanded the transom and put…

July 14 from 2:00 pm – 5:30 pm: Today, I started the longboard sanding. July 15 from 7:00 am – 1:00 pm: Continued longboard sanding. From 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm: Applied first coat of finish top coat. Tomorrow I will sand in again with fine and put the last coat on.

Today, I applied masking tape, bottom paint and hull top coat paint. Next weekend I will take a longboard to the top coat and will apply the final coat and white boot stripe. Started at 7:00 am and ended at 1:00 pm.

Today was spent sanding the faring compound, reading it for masking and painting. Started at 10:30 am and ended 6:00 pm.

July 7 from 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm: cut and milled rough 1×12 ash stock for the taint guard. From 8:45pm to 10:30pm: sanded hull preparing for faring compound. July 8 from 7:30 am to 9:30 am: applied final epoxy wood fillet to the keel and fiber glassed it to the boat. From noon to…

I passed on the faring compound today and cut, fit and mounted the purple heart keel. I need to fiber glass the keel to the hull so to apply faring compound at this time would be putting the cart before the horse. Started at 9:30 am and ended at 2:30 pm.

Today I fared the entire hull and then fiber glassed it. Tomorrow I will put faring compound over the hull, sand it smooth and prepare it for paint. Started at 7:30 am and ended at 1:00 pm.

June 30 from 8:30 pm to 9:45 pm: fared hull with 80 grit in preparation for fiber glass tape. July 1 from 8:30 am to 1:30 pm: taped all seams with double layer of 6 ounce fiber glass. Tomorrow, I will fare all the high spots and fiber glass the hull.