1955 CC Hurricane Restoration

reidp wrote: So how's Dana holding up?

Dana....oh she left six months ago.

OK...I'm kidding. She is obviously a saint and a true-blue CCFan.

EDIT: DOH!!! too early in the morning for my mind to be in the gutter. Thanks for clarifying skicat.

reidp wrote: 81nautique wrote: 36 tubes of rubber and 2100 screws and I have the tunnel to prove it! towards the end of first day my hands cramped to the point where I couldn't squeeze.   Enjoy and thanks for the encouragement. So how's Dana holding up?

It's not her I'm worried about!

Ok back on topic, I started grinding her bottom anticipating flipping her over!    No that's not gonna work.

Started shaping the new hull today, used an 8" soft pad and some very agressive 3m green discs on a Milwaukee grinder. Man to these things cut and they last foreever. Pretty expensive sandpaper but worth every penny.

Piles of dust inches deep!


Are those your good work jeans? Busted, It's just a little dust honey!

She's finally looking sexy again.


Need to put some finishing touches on the sanding today, then hopefully I'll get the screw holes filled and smoothed down. Hope to have it completely cpes'd within a day or so.

Alan, that look's fantastic.

Nice pause on the first sentence, although it was at least as thought provoking as your actual project.

I cannot wait to see this boat in person again.

Wow is all I can say! I have never see anyone get such a nice concave surface up front like you have. Artistic feel with the grinder!!

Sorry guys. Tried to say "much anticipated" on the above.

BuffaloBFN wrote: How long did you sit and look at it after the day was called? And wow, it almost looks bookmatched. 2 points on the forethought!

2 beers Greg, it is bookmatched the best I could. all the planks came from resawn 5/4 stock so I just took the sets and split them for each side.

8122pbrainard wrote: Wow is all I can say! I have never see anyone get such a nice concave surface up front like you have. Artistic feel with the grinder!!

Thanks Pete, Means a lot coming from you. The 3m 1" thick soft backer pad is the secret Pete, you can really carve with that thing..
The 3m Green paper cuts like razors. Pretty easy job but that grinder gets a little heavy after 8 hours.

Morfoot wrote: Looking good Alan! Just curious but have you kept a log of how many man hours you're putting in this thing?

Tim, I'm keeping a spreadsheet of materials but I purposely decided at the beginning I wasn't going to keep track of hours. I don't want to hang a pricetag on my hourly value at the end of this thing.


Mike/Jim, thanks for the compliments guys.

I'm done for the day, one side screw holes are filled with famowood, gonna try to stay on this after work all week and finish this up by the weekend.

Very impressive!

I look forward to your progress every week too. I can't wait to see this when it's all done.

Alan

When you get that finished, you'll have to take the summer and do the antique boat show circuit. There are some nice ones here in NY.

Looks great!

David

You are right Alan.....looks to nice for paint.

Alan, what size pad are you using and is it hook and loop or self stick?

Jeff... Bottom will get 4 coats of barrier coat and 2 coats of paint. Has to be protected from the moisture or it won't last. No one sees it anyway but the fish!


Tim...8" PSA on that soft backer pad I showed earlier.

Tim,
Sounds like the 3M guy has been around! Are you going to let us in on the specs?

Morfoot wrote: Okay, guys throw the 6" green 40, purple 80 grit paper away like wild fire and I save the stuff for personnal use. I was gonna send you a care package.

Thanks for the thought Tim. The 3m disks are incredible, I used 6 disks for the entire bottom of the boat, they really hold up.

Morfoot wrote: 8122pbrainard wrote: Are you going to let us in on the specs?     Not sure what specs you want?

Just the 3M type or series of discs/abrasive that works so well. It's not the blue/purple zirconia alumina???