A Cracker Built GF18- Finished 6/28/15

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Cracker Larry
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Re: A Cracker Built GF18

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Your boat's looking very good. I'm waiting patiently for your fairing pictures tomorrow.
Thanks! Just for you I brought out the good camera and took some pictures of that. I don't do it often, the cell phone is much easier to upload from :D

These are after 3 rounds of applying filler and sanding. The camera is on macro mode and focused close in most pictures.

See the shiny spots in this weave? Shiny spots are low and need filling. If we sanded down to them, we would remove too much cloth, Need the cloth! You can't even feel these with your finger, but if you paint over it, it will look like you painted over a burlap sack. A few coats of high build primer would probably fix it. I'd rather spot fair it.

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Same here in the weave and on the tape edge, can't sand the tape down, have to fill it. Shiny spots are low.

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These are tiny pinholes, filled with sanding dust. They would probably show through the primer. Have to blow or wash the dust out and fill them.

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Low spot along chine tape. Again, you can't even feel it, but glossy paint will make it show. Primer would fill it, eventually. So will Quick Fair :D

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Same here. Everything should be the same dusty dull uniform look. No shiny spots. Primer would fill these too.

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Completed GF12 X 2, GF16, OD18, FS18, GF5, GF18, CL6
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Re: A Cracker Built GF18

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I submitted before I was finished. Sort of like fairing :lol: :lol:

Tiny divot and some more pin holes on this tape edge. Need to fill that, primer won't fix that hole. Always resist the urge to fix a divot by tilting the sander and working that spot. You'll just make a deeper divot. Fill it now :wink:

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This is how it should look. No shiny spots, no holes, everything the same dull look...

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Completed GF12 X 2, GF16, OD18, FS18, GF5, GF18, CL6
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Re: A Cracker Built GF18

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Larry,
Many thanks for that last teaching moment. I now understand what you have been talking about all these years and was too dense to understand without seeing it. I tend toward being a visual learner. I now understand pin hole. I thought that it was very small and would have to look very close to see. Close, but not with a magnifying glass!!! Once again, you teach so well and give us something to work toward with our builds.

Keep on TEACHING!!

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Re: A Cracker Built GF18

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Second that, I will be fairing soon, good to see what it should look like!

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Re: A Cracker Built GF18

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Keep on TEACHING!!
Thanks Robbie, they say that those who can, do, and those who can't, teach. Today, I couldn't do, might as well teach :lol: Didn't want to pick up a sander, didn't want to mix and spread fairing, didn't want to do much of anything that involved muscle movement :lol: It was time to walk away from it for a day or 2 8)
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Re: A Cracker Built GF18

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Thanks for taking the time to post daily updates and explaining what you're doing.
This all would of come in real handy 9 months ago. I'm about about 85.87234% sure my boat wont leak :D

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Thanks for taking the time to post daily updates and explaining what you're doing.
This all would of come in real handy 9 months ago. I'm about about 85.87234% sure my boat wont leak :D

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Thanks CL. Hadn't realised that the deveil was so much in the detail.
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Re: A Cracker Built GF18

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Yes, thanks for taking the time to show the far less experienced. A good picture is worth so many words.
Try and fill with primer is exactly what I did. I expected too much from the high build primer, and was trying to save the quickfair. "Ah, the primer'll fill it", I thought. Nope.
So tell us this, when do you put down the long board, and pick up the ro?

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Re: A Cracker Built GF18

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Larry,
In my experience, the best teachers are those who can do it and enjoy showing others that it can be done by their own two little grubby hands. Whether these teachers were farmers, musicians, boat builders, etc. they had a passion for showing others and seeing the students results and the interest they stirred in them.
I have really enjoyed your builds and seeing how you sequence things. In time I will learn some of those skills 8O :roll: :D

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