Help on painting

Thank you for accepting my membership request.

I am NEW in the wooden boat world. I purchased a 23 foot Clippercraft 2 weeks ago. She was built in 1983 out of mahogany plywood. The owner of the boat painted her, I am not sure what kind of paint it is. The oringinal paint is still the only layer she has on. It has been stored in a garage all of its life 21 years. The paint at plywood ends at the transome has worn away the topside has small blisters on it.

 

The construction on the side gunnels are plywood strips screwed and epoxyed to a 1.5 inch strips creating a lapped plank look.

 

My big questions are. Do I need to strip all of the paint off the hull before I repaint her or can I sand the good paint and reapply a new layer? If I need to strip all the paint off will a heat gun distroy the epoxy bond between the plywood and 1.5 inch strips? Should I use an epoxy penitrator to seal the ends of the plywood. The boat will be on a trailer all the time with a week being the longest it will remain in the water can I use top paint for the bottom or is it recomended to use bottom paint? I plan to spend many hours on the Pacific ocean chasing salom and halibut.

 

attached is a picture of a simular boat. Unfortunitly I do not have a digital camera.

 

Thank you for any input you might have.

 

Steve

Attachment: Clippercraft.jpg

New Boat Plans

Greetings builders,

I'm pleased to annouce 2 updates to our plans.

The Buccaneer is now available in metric:
http://jem.e-boat.net/proddetail.php?prod=BC16

The Cape Fear now comes in 12' and 16' versions:
http://jem.e-boat.net/proddetail.php?prod=RK-CF

And I'm VERY pleased to annouce a Stitch and Glue version of the world
famous Kruger Sea Wind(tm)...we call ours Zephyrus.
http://jem.e-boat.net/proddetail.php?prod=Zeph17

-- 
Matt Langenfeld
JEM Watercraft
http://jem.e-boat.net/

Picture of the week

Wow. On the the cover of the Rolling Stone.....ah I mean the Wooden Boat Builder.

 

Hey Kruz, I'm honored. Thanks. We'll make steady progress on her. I expect to be in the water by the middle of June and then engine rebuilt and all the other fun stuff. Can't wait to shake this wood boat fever.

 

George

CAULKING

Its time to start the permanent installation of some under water hardware. I'm interested in info for the best type of caulking for beding struts, rudder glands, and thru hull fittings. What say you all?

 

CB

Sound off thread

How about a "sound off" as to where everyone is from? City, State, Country (If not US). I'll start...

 

Indianapolis, Indiana (It's May, Race month, anyone going?)

 

Kruez

epoxy on hull

     I am considering building a plywood skiff(screw & glue), using a high quality ply such as Meranti. I have also been considering putting 2 or 3 coats of West System Epoxy on the completed hull.  My thinking is that it will act as a moisture barrier which will lessen the need for painting every season and add some strenght/rigidity to the hull. Having never done either of these things before, I am thowing this out for some suggestions/opinions! (help)

AN OFFER TOO GOOD NOT TO CONSIDER

 AN OFFER TOO GOOD NOT TO CONSIDER

Greetings all. My apologies for having been terribly slow in getting this out. Computer and Health problems. Limping along....but aaaaanyway.... Welcome to all the new members - glad to see new neighbors......aaaaand....

 

Got an e from a fellow in Australia who happens to be a pretty talented boat designer, computer programmer and all around stellar fellow I am proud to call friend. The following is a paragraph I've just got to share with the rest of the group. This might be an offer "too good to refuse" - or at least consider deeply if you've got the wantas for a summer project. If I wasn't up to my little flat butt in barking alligators I would probably start ordering plywood this weekend. Looks like a great catamaran design, an opportunity for fame and fortune and the chance to feed the greed monster to boot.

 

If you look in the subjects list of the WBB site you'll see a "HOT CHILI" folder there with some sketches and some build notes from Jeff's stash, per his permission to post the offer to the Wooden Boat Builder membership.

 

Excerpt from e-mail from Jeff Gilbert, Designer:

 

"while I was away in Tasmania this summer the Hot Chili prototype project in Adelaide, instead of being launched came to a sudden halt...So I'd very much like a sailing Chili scooting about with attendant photos. What I've decided to do is offer a reward - a 200% refund for the first Chili to hit the water with a write-up and sailing photos. That means a full refund of the plan price and the same again, which means $200.00. For this I need a few dated launch and under sail photos of a bona fide (full size {ed}) non-cardboard cutout Hot Chili containing people and/or dogs. Sky hooks, towropes and Rhino drawings floating at the top of Niagra Falls are right out. This should be pretty fair as no one has started yet, or if they have they haven't mentioned it..."

 

Cheers,

Jeff Gilbert

 

 

 

Hot Chili Plans and photos

http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/r/designs/gilbert/hotchili/hc.htm

Forum

http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/r/forum.htm

Designs

http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/designs.htm

Dreamboats

http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/r/columns.htm

Alleycat 20ft mini Liveaboard.

http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/r/designs/gilbert/alley/cat.htm

Gumboots fast simple 31ft Ocean Cat

http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/designs/gilbert/gumboots/index.htm

Cartaphylla 22ft 8 inch Ocean Schooner

http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/designs/gilbert/cartaphylla/index.htm

Squeezebox liferaft

http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/columns/dreamboats/squezebox.htm

http://www.cfproductions.com/castcrew/alanshaklee/boat.htm

Design Philosophy (old)

http://www.duckworksmagazine.com/designs/gilbert/Ketchup/designs.htm

Other people

PVC/Wood laminate mast...how to build

http://catalog.com/bobpone/coldmoulded.htm

Telescoping flagpoles ...

http://www.dcmfg.com/Flagpole.html

http://www.boatdesign.net/articles/mast-materials/index.htm