Preliminary Fairing

[Dan_Smullen]

Won't save any fairing; sorry.

[fallguy1000]

I apologize for my bad language with the f word!

[Fuzz]

Like it or not the F word gets used in boat building. Sometimes BOTH F words get used, one more than the other

[Netpackrat]

Like it or not the F word gets used in boat building. Sometimes BOTH F words get used, one more than the other

I hadn't realized you could hear me all the way down on the peninsula last year.

[VT_Jeff]

Dan, what was the final analysis on this idea?

[Dan_Smullen]

Dan, what was the final analysis on this idea?

The fairing continues...

There was a definite benefit to spreading some peanut butter before laying glass. At a minimum, it prevented voids beneath the glass. I think...

[Dan_Smullen]

Also, I think I’m going to be sanding forever.

[fallguy1000]

Also, I think I’m going to be sanding forever.

I put on like 10-12 coats of paint on my boat. It looks decent enough, but all that sanding. Ugh.

I have started to get a habit of jaw clenching from the frustration of hull 1.

The longboard is the trick. The boat should look damn near perfect before you start painting.

Yesterday, we were tacking off 400 grit sanding and I told my friend, this looks good, let's paint it and sand it back with 600 tomorrow. Eventually, we'll make our way up to 3000 grit. Blech!!! Nope. It is gonna be done for now with the flaws she has.

[Dan_Smullen]

Yesterday, we were tacking off 400 grit sanding and I told my friend, this looks good, let's paint it and sand it back with 600 tomorrow. Eventually, we'll make our way up to 3000 grit. Blech!!! Nope. It is gonna be done for now with the flaws she has.

I can’t imagine staring down a project of that size.

Are you in the hundreds of hours range in fairing and priming?

[fallguy1000]

Yesterday, we were tacking off 400 grit sanding and I told my friend, this looks good, let's paint it and sand it back with 600 tomorrow. Eventually, we'll make our way up to 3000 grit. Blech!!! Nope. It is gonna be done for now with the flaws she has.

I can’t imagine staring down a project of that size.

Are you in the hundreds of hours range in fairing and priming?

We started fairing the first hull back in about September 7. Now, the entire time was not spent fairing; there were a few holidays and a vacation in there, and we had to build beaching keel timbers, and I did an icon project for the church. But probably a close estimate would be 4 days a week two people since then less three weeks off for r&r. So, 19 weeks ago, less 3 is 16 weeks * 4 days is 64 days times 2 guys is 128 days times 8 hours is about 1000 hours. The other hull I expect will take about 300 hours. Two weeks of fairing, a week of priming, and a week of topcoating.

So, for all you guys watching this and dreading the 20 hours of sanding, I say touche'.

We had a lot of failures, honestly. I purchased 40 grit abranet for the next hull for longboarding and we never had it for the first hull and pulled the board with 80 grit to start, for example.