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After getting the seat out I gave the inside hull a good vacuuming and scrubbing with Mr. Clean. With the seat and tank out of the way I was able toscrub the whole bottom.
I'll paint the bottom to the original paint line, as soon as I can find 24 hours predicted not to rain, not an easy task these days!
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She’s cleaning up nice, good job.
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The original bottom paint was a green zinc chromate with non-skid compound embedded. Nowadays you can't get zinc chromate easily (it's highly toxic, and most paints available as such aren't really zinc chromate -- merely zinc chromate-like color). Since I'll be dry-sailing this boat in fresh water, the remaining zinc chromate covered with a good oil based enamel should be fine, re. corrosion.
For non-skid paint, I just happen to have a vintage can of actual non-skid compound (probably a clean graded sand!) from 1957, according to the label. It was given to me by my father in law about ten years ago, and I never had occasion to use it. Well, now here's the perfect excuse!
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Thanks Buckeye, and Special K.
Well, I'm between rainstorms today with about 8 hours in the clear, so I dried the boat first with towels and then with a heat gun on all seams. I masked it, and then mixed up a quart of paint with 4 ounces of the non-skid compound. It looks like very fine white quartz sand, mixed with a light oil of some kind, maybe mineral oil or mineral spirits. It worked well, but had to be constantly stirred while applying.
This is a round-bilged boat, not a vee-bottom or flat-bottom, like modern boats. One nice shapely quality i appreciate is the tumble-home in the quarters -- the way the sides roll back in at the stern -- very Fifties style.
Every frame in the boat (or I should properly say every floor member) is different and each seems to be stamped with a part number. All of the floors have limber holes at the center of the boat, so water won't sit behind them, but drains to the back if the trailer is set bow-high.
Most of the floors are stampings, but two are heavy duty I-beam extrusions, bent to shape. I'm really impressed with the quality of this 63 year old boat. It might as well be two years old from the way it has held up.
I got the painting done in an hour, now fingers crossed the rain holds off long enough for the paint to set. It's drying slowly in this humidity, but I'm pretty sure rain won't hurt it in a few hours.
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lookin' good, keep us posted!
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That is coming along nicely. I look forward to seeing your progress
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Man that’s awesome AND beautiful, keep up the good work!
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Man that is really coming along nicely! Thanks for sharing your progress.
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