samzerelli's 1649 flat bottom overhaul

[fool4fish1226]

Your making good progress and the boat is looking good

 

[samzerelli]

First coat of Rustoleum Smoke Grey (and gnats). Rolled and tipped:

 

[samzerelli]

Second coat is now on the exterior. I'm going to let it sit upside down to cure for a week and turn my attention to this rusty trailer.

 

[Gators5220]

Nice progress, is your final color option going to be grey?

 

[samzerelli]

Nice progress, is your final color option going to be grey?

Yes, I'm going to use that grey for the inside as well.

 

[samzerelli]

Spent the day wrenching on about 1.2 million completely rusted bolts to disassemble the trailer and get it ready for some refurbishing.

 

[user 7806]

Boats looking good you're coming right along with it.

Seems everyone always uses paint remover to strip their boats, anyone ever try media blasting?

 

[New River Rat]

what is going on with the single knee brace way off to the side?

I'm guessing that is a Grumman thing. I've seen a few like that.

 

[samzerelli]

Here's what she looks like with three coats of smoke grey on the exterior after about a week of cure time. I left the top rail unpainted because I'm going to use an anti-skid additive for the interior and wrap that up over the rail.

 

[fool4fish1226]

Turned out nice =D>

 

[samzerelli]

Here are some trailer progress photos. I still need to add bunks, wire the lights, add some guide-ons, and then button everything up:

 

[samzerelli]

Just about finished with the trailer, aka the USS Enterprise. I have one more rusty roller to paint, I need to mount the license plate, and I need to move the trailer jack in front of the tower and shim it out with a couple pieces of aluminum for clearance.

 

[samzerelli]

I put a coat of self-etching primer and a coat of clean metal primer on the interior. And of course it had to rain overnight. I'll make sure everything is dried and cured before I apply paint.

 

[samzerelli]

The first coat is on the interior. It looks pretty bad with patchiness and brushlines galore. I'm really curious to see what it looks like after the second coat is applied.

 

[samzerelli]

Got the second coat on the interior. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Tomorrow I'll put the registration stickers on it.

 

[TheMaestro]

The paint job looks really good. What are you using for decals?

 

[samzerelli]

The paint job looks really good. What are you using for decals?

I ordered three inch vinyl decals from Holy Sheep (sixgun86 is his username here). He lets you pick your own font, so I used Airbus, in white.

 

[samzerelli]

We're legal now.

 

[New River Rat]

Looking good!

 

[samzerelli]

The dirty rear floor is back in.