New to me 72 Skier

This is a couple weeks delayed but thanks Tim, you jinxed me. I was working with the grinder around the exhaust backer boards to get them out and got a touch too deep on one edge. Had on goggles and they were full of dust. Didn’t go all the way through but enough to crack gel slightly. This week, from the inside of the boat I painted gel on to thicken the gel back a bit. Then followed that with thickened resin w chop and cabosil followed by a small mat patch followed by a large mat patch. The entire back will be strengthened further when glassing in backer boards in the future but this will allow me to now sand the crack out from the outside and touch up the gel. A goof for sure but never was too worried as we have gel in the fridge. Jesse and I are now even for going through the gel while working from the inside.

Ridgely wanted to stay in Winston this weekend so Jesse and I went to the farm Fri for 24hrs to get some progress done on the Skier.  We worked on cutting and shaping the Douglas Fir stringers.  Ran out of time yesterday and had to head home before getting the starboard secondaries finished.  Most of the cross blocking you see are just supports and place holders.  Ideally we would get all wood cut and fit this summer so we could do some glassing this fall while the temps are still good.  

Got some time this past weekend to finish the wood work on the stringers including routing all of the edges with a round over bit. And CPES’d all of it too. Used epoxy from us composites thinned down with acetone. Next time we are there we plan to start bedding and fiberglassing. We got a big order from us composites last week. Going to use biax instead of mat this time. Let the fun begin. Finally time to start putting it back together.

Nice work. Looks great !!!!!!

Boat is going back to the barn today.  Got the stringers glassed in.  Next up, cut the floor and ancillary pieces.  Need to get the garage back for a few weeks to keep the peace in the house.  Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year folks!

Marty used to have a "contact" for the jacks.

Let us know what you find out from Marty.  Thanks

Got to the boat for a night and cut all of the plywood for the floors.  Brought that back to CPES and then will bring the boat back to glass in the floors etc.  Happy New Year!

Outstanding Job Gentlemen.  !!! Can't wait to see this thing in person. Gotta admit...that orange and white Combo is BA!!!! 

Great work guys.  Really appreciate both the old school work and and old school documentation and reporting here on CCF. You are certainly demonstrating it is a labor of love vs flipping and making a buck.

Beautiful job. Thanks for sharing
I have a round fender, would need sandblasting you can have free
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Couple of questions. Planning to paint the boot stripe and racing stripe with paint. Thoughts on having our gel guy shoot them on? Good idea or no? Too thick? Harder to touch up in future bc can’t be buffed off and reapplied?

Cool. Going to paint! Have to get color match in the orange for the racing stripe. Will just use gloss white for the boot stripe.

Working on finding an orange vinyl to match right now. Tough as ours is more tangerine than orange. Have found some plain marine vinyl in good colors…still looking for pleated which we prefer for part.

Jenard now has a new name and no longer heat stamps vinyl. I was given the following names:

Carolina seal and quilt
And
H&R Fabrics

We will see