Monday, 18 May 2015

Freighter canoe update

Link to here: http://blog.ravenwoodcanoes.com/2015/03/the-fishing-machine-or-currently-about.html

Some progress, after interior paint. Rails are done, thwarts in. next is hang seats, and hull and deck paint. It will get kevlar skid plates, and an engine and its on the water.


Good bye blue!


Looking better, outside is next


Few more coats of varnish for the ash


Damn baby blue is ugly.


1st of 3 coats. Epifanes produces a nice, hard enamel finish.



Time for kevlar skid plates


All 3 keels plus stem and stern


Hard beach landings and floating over rocks and shoals arent kind to unprotected gel coat


Broad stern cover


bombproof stem


Black pigment in the skids will blend them in with the black hull paint


Much tougher!


Filling in the felt as it starves while epoxy is drawn down


One more coat of black and the yellow disappears


Almost all cured. 


Final coat goes on after tape removed to fill felt and seal edges


Curing outside


Protection!




Stern cover


Paint job next, hang seats and  go fishing

1 comment:

  1. What's the idea of the felt? Is it used above the Kevlar to add more bulk?

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