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by OrangeQuest
Sat Dec 30, 2023 2:41 pm
Forum: Finished Boats
Topic: FS14 -The Ana Marie Year one.
Replies: 0
Views: 20859

FS14 -The Ana Marie Year one.

I have been busy doing year one boat inspection and have a few things to note. Forum broken, can't control post. I hit spacebar but it sent in my post instead, then couldn't edit. Trying again, hope I can post a completed post! I removed the Flow-Rite control valve, disassembled it and found debris ...
by OrangeQuest
Wed Dec 06, 2023 12:38 pm
Forum: Builder's Power Boats
Topic: ST21 'Skinnydip' build, and boating adventures, Noosa, Australia
Replies: 6949
Views: 751671

Re: ST21 'Skinnydip' build, and boating adventures, Noosa, Australia

Thanks capeman, Fuzz, Tom and Oliver. :D The child bride and I are some of the few yachties in our late seventies still doing serious cruising sea miles up and down the east coast of Australia. This year we left out full size spinnaker pole at home, and we took instead a cut-down spinnaker pole to ...
by OrangeQuest
Tue Dec 05, 2023 9:32 pm
Forum: Anything else and for sale. . .
Topic: Anybody fabricating their own windows
Replies: 7
Views: 12081

Re: Anybody fabricating their own windows

Red is the box frame that attached to the cabin wall. Blue is the box window Green is the cabin opening. Since green is smaller that blue, blue presses against green surface, but held in place and aligned with red. The box window frame can be as thick as needed to apply equal pressure to all sides a...
by OrangeQuest
Tue Dec 05, 2023 8:29 pm
Forum: Anything else and for sale. . .
Topic: Anybody fabricating their own windows
Replies: 7
Views: 12081

Re: Anybody fabricating their own windows

Box frame mounted on inside cabin. Smaller box frame window. soft closed cell foam half round for seal inside cabin frame. Pair of little thumb screws mounted to the cabin frame that flip into place to press box frame window into the cabin frame seal. The window would be bigger than the cabin openin...
by OrangeQuest
Mon Dec 04, 2023 5:55 am
Forum: Questions before purchasing the plans and announcements..
Topic: GT23
Replies: 162
Views: 28711

Re: GT23

If you use a belt sander and are experienced at using a belt sander it works well with the right grit belt. Same with a grinder and the other types of sanders others use. I also used a sanding disk on my drill for some sanding in a few areas. But I also used a mini belt sander in hard-to-reach areas...
by OrangeQuest
Tue Nov 28, 2023 7:39 pm
Forum: Builder's Power Boats
Topic: FS14 -The Ana Marie
Replies: 74
Views: 12087

Re: FS14 -The Ana Marie

I am still kicking the tires on the Ana Marie. Trinity bay is a little rougher than the bayous and lake that I have been cruising on. The Bay has a very active fishing and hunting community close to where I live but a lot of marshes and shallow water skiffs. The bayou where I enter the bay stacks up...
by OrangeQuest
Wed Nov 15, 2023 7:50 pm
Forum: Questions before purchasing the plans and announcements..
Topic: GT23
Replies: 162
Views: 28711

Re: GT23

I added the minimum 4oz glass on everything that didn't call for glass. All surfaces like the sole and decks I did 6oz for better wear resistance and little more strength. I figured I needed to do 3 or 4 neat coats of epoxy to seal, so went with a neat coat, let it get tacky, then the glass, wait fo...
by OrangeQuest
Mon Nov 13, 2023 7:03 pm
Forum: Builder's Power Boats
Topic: knottyBuoyz III The TW28 Project
Replies: 2691
Views: 360293

Re: knottyBuoyz III The TW28 Project

Should have a video of how to get in and out of that bilge. :)

Funny how all the power tools no matter what color they start life as always wind up the same color as the wood floor/epoxy mix. My Ryobi stuff looks the same.
by OrangeQuest
Sat Nov 11, 2023 7:08 pm
Forum: Builder's Power Boats
Topic: knottyBuoyz III The TW28 Project
Replies: 2691
Views: 360293

Re: knottyBuoyz III The TW28 Project

Did you make it hollow so you can run the wires through it?
by OrangeQuest
Thu Nov 09, 2023 9:17 pm
Forum: Resins, Fiberglass and Paint
Topic: Pushing the temperature envelope
Replies: 5
Views: 1393

Re: Pushing the temperature envelope

I had to do some epoxy work in the same conditions. All I had was the slow hardener I bought for summer work. I tried to avoid doing anything when the air would drop below 55 deg or so at night but I may have still done it anyway. It extended my working time for one thing, but the epoxy still cured ...