1955 CC Hurricane Restoration

8122pbrainard wrote: When the time comes for that name on the transom, remember, NO vinyl!! My sign guy still paints by hand if needed. However, when he did the X, he did admit he did get some help with the outline with a Gerber mask!!

Pete I was thinking gold leaf although I haven't even looked at the cost yet. If I decide to paint the name instead of gold leaf Dana can do it. She has a fine art degree, it's not sign painting but we'll get it done!!!

It's almost time to start getting prices on my gauge restoration, I have an idea of what that's going to cost so I haven't pulled trigger yet.

One thing I can't put off is having a cutwater made, I'll need some advice on who can handle that for me. I'm sure that's going to cost a bit as well.

The real cost in this project is anything you can't do yourself!

kap,
its the chrome strip on the leading edge of the bow.. it helps protects the wood from impacts / or "cuts the water".

cutwater on Billy's boat

Cutwaters by Mike

Looks like it may have been paint.

I think an off-white "pickled" finish would look really nice.

Same visual effect from a distance, but up close you could still see the grain.

JMO

1 vote for yellow

beautiful work as usual, the yellow looks great. But I would lean towards original also.

Al (drcc) Here are a few older photos before I dug into the boat. The "yellow" areas are painted, there actually is a chrome trim piece that separates the paint from the stain.



Here's the best shot I have of the yellow color, you can see the colored areas on the deck are just plywood.


I'm going to use easypoxy polyurethane paint and plan to wetsand and buff to a nice smooth gloss. At this point I am about 90% sure it will be a light yellow, not quite as bright as the rendering but not an off white either. As always thanks for your input.

And, If you don't like what Mike says about the Cutwater, there are others that do it.
I'd be willing to bet that you could fab it yourself, maybe even better. Then find someone that could braze it together without wrinkling.
Either way, that's going to be one pricey little piece of hardware.


I love fiberglass

...just keep the interior GREEN!

Alan, Do you have the original cutwater for a pattern?

I am more into a fiberglass restoration...(only because i wouldn't be so good at the wood work)..but if i was ever to do a wooden CC it would have to be one that looks like yours Alan!!! It's so Bad ASS!!!

Can't wait too see it in person!!!(and take a ride in it with ya)

WOW

How does the green bottom play into the whole scheme? Are you going to transition from green, to a yellow water line, to stained hull sides, and back to yellow in places?

As always, Alan, the work looks great!

Sounds like it's going to be great. I should have been specific, I was referring the the green on the flooring.   

Steve,
What were you doing over there? Seeing if Alan would want to finish the Higgins when he's done with the Hurricane? You'd better get moving on that boat!! I'd like to see it in the water while I'm still alive!!

When Steve stopped by I was well into 40 grit long boarding one side. I ended up getting both sides faired in with a 60 grit soft backed disc, I had to go out and buy a cheapo Harbor Freight grinder because my Milwauke was just too darn heavy to handle accurately. So I got both sides ground fair and then turned to the long board at 40grit.   One side is complete and I'm going to try to hit the other at night this week.

I don't think sanding through the grits will be that hard just time consuming but the 40 grit long boarding is brutal. This is the stage where the boat gets it's shape and if you screw this up you're going to live with it so it's slow going and really works the arms.

I had every intentiojn of fairing the second side Sunday but I lost my ambition and the shoulders said I should do something else so I filled any holes below the waterline with famowood and started cutting bungs for the topsides.

No pictures this week and I'm out of town next weekend so that's about it for a while. The goal right now is to finish long boarding one side, then sand and repaint the bottom one more coat. After that I'd like it to sit for a couple of weeks for the paint to harden and we'll set a date for the flipping party. Probably mid April.