Always a challenge before the compound goes off…. My least favorite part of the process

**Fairing COMPOUND! 😂 (I hate misspelled words)

Do you sale these lights? I’m looking for some powerful bow lights.

Sweet. May your compressor stand strong and the flies walking in the last coat be minimal.

I don't get jealous very often. Really nice.

I used to try on purpose to spray in the rain. Keeps the dust down. Didnt seem to effect Imron or Awlgrip. Good luck bud!

Looks sick bro!! When we getting a full video?

Looking fantastic!

Looks great for a commercial fishing boat

If im mot mistaken, the cup measures oz volume, and the scale measures oz weight, two different measurements

Thank you for your tips, the roller was a game changer on my last layups, especially for sopping up excess resin. I'm also working on setting up the acetone buckets. Keep sharing tips for us noobs!

Duratec recommend fast acrylic thinner , any thoughts ? I don't have access to duratec products , i m facing problem with praying gelcoat even from a 3 mm nozzle with gel coat gun .

That is gonna be a nice flybridge.

Nice!

I'm sorry. I really wanted to learn something......unfortunately, the screaming music kept me from watching the entire video

What kind of resin are you using im finishing outer layer of my boat transom

beautiful rebuild of a great classic. The level of quality, detail & design work is incredible.

Now that’s some beef!

Sweet!

Makes sure water doesn’t back up into the engine through the exhaust?

Great work I would watch as many detail videos that you make

Looks siiiiiiick bro!!! A jewel of a helm chair.

Nice! What idd you use for bilge paint?

I like to cut about half the bristle length of brushes for tamping resins into corners.

Love your work, but music is a bit annoying while your talking.

Yea baby!! Looking good!!

Lookin good when are we getting another full length video

Gonna be sick when all painted out

Why did you add more styrene to gelcote?

Why did you fair the bolts, now you need to break it to unscrew if needed, and i dont think it makes that big of a difference?

I love it!! ❤

Like 40 layers deep. Sheesh it’s pretty much 50cal resistant

What kind of risen to use with chop

Not enough o’s in smoooooooth!!😂

Beautiful work as always. Question, how do you trim the overhang on the coosa panels so neatly?

Styrene sucks, it’s a killer. Duratec additive, use a real gun like a Binks with a 68 tip and a pot.

I'm getting ready to do my first boat gelcoat repair and watching every video. You make a good point both about the stirring the gelcoat and weighing because the containers are not calibrated. One could take a container, fill it up with water to the intended line and weigh the water. If for instance you fill the container to 30 ml, the water should weigh 30 grams. Do this at several points to see if the container's marks are consistent. I would imagine that a batch of containers would be consistent. But when you change to a different batch or brand, you'll need to check it again. Did you check the calibration on the MEKP measuring device? The density of the gelcoat is about 1.1 so 20 ml will weigh about 22 grams. The density of MEKP is reported to be 1.17. Now my comment on your calculator: Is the input supposed to be fluid oz (volume) or weight oz(mass)? You inputted weight ounces and you didn't correct it for its density. The result of MEKP is a fluid measurement. The volume of 28.5 weight oz would be about 26 fluid oz. So for 1.75% by weight would require 0.5 weight oz of MEKP which is 0.426 fl oz which is 12.8 ml. 1.75% by volume is .0175 * 26 is .455 fl oz which is 13.65 ml. So the difference is 0.85 ml. Does that make a significance difference?

If you turn to port. Which way is your heading

Man my old rudders on my 37 Bert hit sea turtles, a submerged telephone pole, a sunfish and even big shark I saw come shooting out the back. All needing a separate haul out to fix. No such thing as too beefy. Looks incredible!

Just like Bertram, save the rudders we might need them

Do you electrically bond all these to each other or is it not needed on a good brass fitting?

Love it. I have a 97 7.3 looking forward to the content.

Like a glove

All fixed up! Lookin good!

The rudder you are using at the beginning of the video looks way too small. A common complaint on the Bertram's are rudder size. I purchased a Bertram 28 with factory rudders, and could not drive the boat on one engine. I made oversized rudders, and they worked amazingly. I think you have plenty of room to shorten your shaft, and bring the prop closer to the strut. I always go with enough clearance to get a prop puller on plus a little wiggle room. I also think the mock up rudder at about 15:20 is about a perfect design, but maybe a little more surface area.

Now that is extremely interesting. I have never seen that in my going on 50 years in and around construction. I never really thought about how that stuff was actually laid i guess. Thanks for sharing.

Man doesn't look like any easy way out of that rudder problem besides removing some rudder. Would have never guessed the length would go up so much from a 19 to a 21.

Or just maybe have the rudder on a pinch bolt shaft configuration so that you can slide the rudder on and off by loosing the pinch bolts? Or not. But as usual outstanding work!

Ever thought of adding a feature to make very small "preval" patch mixes? With MEKP having an option for drop wise? That would be super handy, what you have here is great don't get me wrong but it would up your game much more.. thanks for this great tool!!