It is time and past time for an update here; my apologies to anyone who thought we dropped off the face of the earth…
Tag: do-it-yourself boat
Hammer Time
I seem to have a song for just about everything; most of the time I keep things to myself and just sing in my own head. But sometimes, especially when I’m a bit tired or distracted or feeling like lifting my own spirits, I will sing. And by “sing” I don’t mean a melodious tune. Nope, I belt out like a sideshow carnie barking for the moose lady. It doesn’t matter whether I know the words, I sing. Needless to say Peter isn’t a huge fan of when these moments hit me.
Fair thee well
I forgot something when I recounted the steps needed to get from nasty rust to “nice boat!”: smoothing the fairing compound.
We (and by we I mean Peter) heaped and scraped and pushed gloopy fairing compound into the primed rust divots. Wet fairing compound is impossible to get perfectly smooth; it either is built up too low or too high. Too high means it has to be sanded off; too low means more needs to be heaped on top, left to cure, then sanded off.
fairing is fairly fair
I struggled with what to call this post because there are so many jokes and just one title. It could have been called My Fairing Lady
or: all’s fair in love and boating.
or: my life my boat isn’t fair.
If you are unclear whether I’m making jokes or writing gibberish, read on.
The prime directive
After Ospho comes primer in our Rust Repair Odyssey.
Primer: just like what a normal person (read: non-steel boat owner) uses under any type of paint if they’re doing the job right. We want to do the job right (caveat in this post notwithstanding) so we are applying primer.
It is a fancy-pants two-part primer formulated for metal and costs no more for a pint-sized container than does a good dinner out in Manhattan.
What is this Ospho stuff and why should I care?
This is the question you might be asking. See here and here for previous references; I’m sure I have piqued your interest. (I had never asked this question before buying a steel boat simply because I had never heard of Ospho. It’s not something that comes up as a topic of conversation in the circles I run in. So…you’re welcome for broadening your horizons.)
Ospho, for those who are just dying to know, is a rust converter. It converts iron oxide into iron phosphate. At least that’s what it claims. I know that a large bottle of it came with the boat, that it smells like Death’s ass, and it turns rusty steel black.
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A dodger whose name is not Roger
I told AllesGirl that I was taking apart our Dodger so I could make a new one. This is what she sent back:
Sailing Devilfish 