1971 170 Aquasport Rebuild

[Rickk]

Thanks. It seems to be really hard. Looks like gelcoat. It gets pretty shiny but not as lusterous as gelcoat i.e. depth if you know what I mean. But it is a bottom paint and epoxy. I think it'll do...

[Rickk]

Been a rainy day here.
In between showers I was able to sand down the hull sides again and rough up the bottom paint I sprayed on the hullsides.

Then I looked at the transom and there were pinholes, that I thought I already took care of.

So I filled them and sanded it all down again - most are gone now.

Since it was raining on and off, I drilled the engine mount holes with the help of a friend that stopped by.

Washed it all down and am hoping that the weather shapes up tomorrow for spraying primer. Have to get this thing done. The bottom really looks good after I washed the sanding residue off it with a soft brush.

This past week I ordered a rebuild kit for the Aeropro paint gun and rebuilt it today - hopefully it'll act like a normal spray gun tomorrow.

The weather started out rainy on and off but cleared out enough for me to mask the bottom off and get a quart kit of primer on the hullsides and transom. There was enough paint in the kit (primer, activator and reducer) to put multiple coats on for a good covering.


Drilled the engine mount holes also




Now around mid-week it needs a light sanding of 220 or higher and then it's paint time.
(BTW the paint gun still sputtered after rebuild - either I didn't do the rebuild properly or the gun is junk - the cheapo HF gun worked fine)

[Rickk]

Well, I finally made some progress :cheers:
I sanded the primer down with 220 yesterday and then today buffed the bottom with Aquabuff 2000, which seemed to help shine it up some more. I think I will do one more buff with 3m Final Finish.

Then I washed the boat and masked the bottom off and








I see some places that didn't get the same amount of the last coat that I sprayed so I think I need to sand it and buff it out. Overall it came out pretty nice.
One more weekend and I can flip it back over.

[Rickk]

The only damage and it is minimal and will be covered by jack plate.


Back where we started but with more shine

[Rickk]

Some progress around the rain:
Made some standoffs out of some scrap 3/4" penske board that Scott sent me and 5min epoxied them to the inside of the transom.


Had to build up the CSM slowly - even with the board cut at angles, the 3/4oz CSM still doesn't like to traverse the corners


I put one on each side


One of the uses is for the fuel filter - not sure which side I'll pull the fuel line through - still trying to make it so I don't puncture into the wood coring for anything


Also started the fairing process of the inside


Went through another quart today - $$$


Maybe I'll need a couple more quarts

[Rickk]

Bought some more filler but with red hardener this time and spread it all around the boat. This is the 2nd and hopefully last coat. Burned up my Ryobi sander on this.




Bought a new Makita random orbital this morning and spent the day breaking it in.




Filled the cloth print on the hatch and also applied the fairing to the bottom of the transom.


After a little more sanding, hopefully I'll be ready to spray gelcoat next weekend. I'm starting to see lovebugs now though

[MakoMike19]

the love bugs have finally died off here (northern FL), but they have an extremely strong attraction to quick fair. I had a few hundred additions to my floor, but they sand out just fine

that is going to be one slick boat! I'm quite jealous

[Rickk]

Thanks Mike. Last November I sprayed my console and came back out and found a few lovebugs stuff in the fresh gelcoat - not sure why they like this styrene or whatever is in gelcoat

[Rickk]

A little progress - we have a high north of us now so there was a little wind from the NE. My house blocks most of it - had to spray in between the wind




A lot of the cap is going to be non-skid but I wanted to get a coat of gelcoat on it anyway






Most of the casting deck will be non-skid




So this is the 10ft look to you - what do I see - PIN HOLES

[DAYTRIP]

Boat looks really nice. Just saw your last update. Love the 17 aquasport and mako. My son is loving the 17 mako I redid. This one is the second one. Keep going she will be great!