rag. This should be done quickly, carefully and with
completeness, but just wiping. DONT try to use a
polishing action.
This should make it really shiny, and really smooth. It
will dry very quickly in this form.
Once finished, the next question was, do we chuck
what’s left in the cans into the bin, like we do with
conventional two pack paints, because it just sets off
and we can’t use the balance?
Here is another Aquacote trick. After four hours, more
or less, the cross linker loses effectiveness. So we
waste nothing. That excess paint may be poured
straight back into the can. (The corollary is that the
cross linker must be topped up and mixed in after
a few hours, as you proceed with your painting, to
maintain good hardness later)
Recoating without sanding is possible up to four hours
after curing. After that it should be lightly sanded first.
Finally, it actually seems to get shinier as the years go
by.
in the same boat’ skiff build
skiff Build, Clayton Church, Adelaide
Thought the ‘In The Same Boat’ Spire Community
Group in Norwood (SA) would have their first ST
Ayles Skiff planked by now. The first planks actually
went on this last week, a big milestone.
The amazing ‘Geelong Veritas’ and ‘Lifeboat’ groups
are leaving everyone else in Australia right now in a
cloud of sawdust and planking. They are fitting the
seats ... whoops, that one bucks the trend! to their
boats in under a year. Look at Geelong Wooden Boat
Festival, there will be St Ayles event, for sure.
Much more next issue.
Max and Ruth finesse the completion of fixing the garboard
planks. It’s all easier from here!Gwenda and Max prepare for subsequent planks.Ruth and Max screwing on the first plank.
in the spirit of charlie fisher
Turning an old Nis Mk1 into a hybrid Mk3.
Thought I’d have got my ‘new’ boat closed up before
Christmas. That’s not happening. Maybe Easter?
I kind of inherited the boat we built in my earlier days
for Angus Houston, and dragged her then rather sorry
collection of parts back from Lake Macquarie to my
shed in Mt Barker.
Then, I got really busy, on everyone else’s jobs.
My wife Ali decided I was to have an iPhone
amputation every Thursday from 8am to dusk, while
I did nothing but work on the as yet un-renamed
boat. BRUTALLY painful as that was, and with the
consolation help of long time friend, and employee
in a past life, the incredibly capable Morgan Clark,