Showing posts with label Bottom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bottom. Show all posts

Sunday, October 26, 2014

Back on The Bottom!

     Since finishing grad school, my free-time has opened up dramatically; however, I have since taken on a project fabricating new brightwork and painting a sailing dinghy (see www.awee1.blogspot.com)....so my time on the W32 has been spare to none!  Well, I have determined to hold myself to at least some amount of time per day to establish the needed "momentum" to complete the build-out....and at least while the W32 is in my possession.  You see, I am at a bit of a cross-roads:  either keep and complete this W32, or....fulfill this nagging desire to own and sail a W42.  Only time will tell which path I follow...I have put a lot in this project thus far (time and money), so my decision needs to be made soon.

Anyway, sticking to the commitment I made to myself, and with daylight burning, I managed to get 1/2 an hour on the starboard bottom sanding.  


Using 80-grit PSA pads on the Porter-Cable 7335, 6" pad, I prepared half of the starboard side for its inevitable 120-grit pass.  With light fading fast, I wrapped things up with "at least some amount of time" spent on the project.  Cheers!



Total Time: .5 hours

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Scraping Bottom


Sunday, November 18th, I spent a few hours scraping the bottom.  On Froonie, the Sea Sprite 23', I took the orbital sander directly to the bottom paint.  The work was long and arduous - removing the stubborn bottom paint until I arrived at the gelcoat.  The oppressive Florida summer heat made the work all the more less appealing.  My approach to removing the bottom paint on the Westsail was founded in experience - a miserable experience!  I used a hand scraper, something similar to this but without the high price tag, and found the removal very easy.  




I will spend, hopefully, very little time with the random orbital to clean up the balance of the bottom...




Time Today: 3.5 hours