Sneak Peak

Mocking up fuel tank

Shaft Install

The strut bearing is cut in half and installed in each end of the strut using a bushing driver

New AQ22 shaft installed

More rigging

Steering Mock-Up

The rigging has started ! The center line reference was located with a framing square, level and tape measure. The rudders will be set up at 8" off center. Rudder brackets were drilled and mocked-up.

Paint finished

Here is the paint in the finished state. Rat Fink and pin striping has been added. Holes for the shaft log have been drilled and tapped. A quick overall buff job, wash and it is ready for rigging

Bottom of Hull

The bottom is completely finished. It was color sanded to 2000 grit, then polished. The speckles and film "wool fibers" want to stick to the hull because of static. This part of the project came out great !

Polishing Fuel Tanks

Here I used a 3" very fine flap sander chucked in a die grinder. Looks like with some effort these tanks will clean up ! We will see...

Here is the condition of the fuel tanks. These guys don't look so good, years of grime, rust and overspray.

The entire hull is color sanded to 2000 grit before polishing

Now for the fun to start. Here purple base topped with purple metalflake and air brushing highlights.

Then the green and yellow candies to go to a finished stripe

Silver base to the stripes

Here Kevin is sticking down some stripes !

Table of "Bling"

Parts are being polished...

Here the steering is polished and assembled

Steering Machined

While the boat is being painted it is time to make up rigging. Here the clam and bracket were copied to make a dual rudder system. Hydros don't turn well...extra rudder surface area

will help to turn the boat.

Paint Work

The paint work has been started by Kevin Kernen. The paint job starts out with gold base, then silver highlights were added. Yellow Kandy was then sprayed down with Tangerine Kandy topping it off. All colors are from House of Kolors (HOK)

Floor flow coated

The floors were flow coated with Duratec 904-045 clear topcoat dyed with 2% black.

Floors ready for flow coat

The floors were faired and the glass overlaps were filled and blended. Then primed....WHOOOO-HOOO!!! Ready for flow coat!

Ready for paint

After hundreds of hours of fairing and sanding, the hull is ready for it's final paint job.