Joe's P19 RE-LAUNCH

[Joe H]

Eric, I have to glass it before I can fair it but I'm going for it, I just got in from the garage glued the front together and plug the holes I put in when I screwed the side panels together.
Dougster, I been watching your tread pretty much from the bigining, side panels and all, Oh, and I'm going to have an aluminum gas tank made for the boat.

Joe H

[Joe H]

I filled in the gaps with woodflour & epoxy mix, put in a ½" fillet on all the hard edges and I'm ready to glass, I have some time off for Thanksgiving so will see what I can get done between eating & fishing.


Happy Thanksgiving!

Joe H

[mecreature]

Looks cool..

Nice to see another pic.

[Joe H]

I made a little progress over the long Thanksgiving weekend, I managed to tape all the outside seems but I had to do the Transom twice because of air bubbles, the only difference was I used slow hardner on the chines and fast hardner on the transom, I ended up sanding it all down and re-doing the whole thing, I put more of a radius on the transom edges just to be sure, they might have been a little smaller then 1/2".
It was worth re-doing it though because it came out perfect the second time around and I feel much better about it.

Here's a few pictures of my progress.





Joe H

[Dougster]

Wow, that's real neat work. I never quite seem to get it that nice, but then I'm used to me by now. I have noticed it's usually worth it to do over if you're agitated over it. Always a good feeling to make it better. 'Course there's that good 'nuff point of view, but it's a risky path. No risk for you up on that high road you're travelin'

Watchin' it happen Dougster

[Joe H]

Thanks Dougster, beleive me there are plenty of good 'nuff area's that only the builder know's about!

Joe H

[wegcagle]

Very neat work Joe. I agree; make sure it's done correctly now and no heart ache in the future I'm currently in the midst of grinding down and cleaning up an area that I did a "quick job" on a few months ago right before I flipped my boat. It'll end up costing me an extra 10-15 hours to do what should've been done right the first time Live and learn.

Will

[Joe H]

Hey Will, don't know if I can make it any shinyer but I'll keep on fixing the f, huh, over sights.
Joe H

[SmokyMountain]

Joe,

Looks great!! I'll be chatching up with you soon I only hope I can be that neat as you.

I know with system 3 epoxy you can mix slow and fast to make a medium set. So you have time to glass, but it cures quick enough to sand and keep production going. I did that with my previous build and it woked good.

Andrew

[Aripeka Angler]

Joe your boat is looking great Nice clean work and great pics as well. Keep up the fine work and we hope to see you in Boca Grande in the Spring....

Richard