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Turning the ugliest boat in Costa Rica into a respectable 28' Center Console Diesel
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07-19-2015, 04:00 PM
GringoJohn
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Well, we got her painted. We sprayed on about 3 gallons of Gelcoat mixed with 2 gallons of Estrene to thin it out to go through the gun. We got four coats on the bottom which is good enough, tomorrow we are going to 100 grit the bottom so that when we are ready to bottom paint it we won't have to sand it upside down. I know it'll probably be pretty flimsy when I get it apart, so we are going to have to do a lot of bracing before we put in the bulkheads. I was overall happy with how the hull turned out, the border was a little rough, but we have to sand all that down anyways to put on the top side. I setup the Go Pro and the Nikon to take some video of us pulling this thing apart and I'll post that in a few minutes. The idea was we used a water hose and floated the mold off of the hull while it's right side up. it was easier than I thought, but the video turned out pretty funny so I'll post it in a sec.
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