About taking off the gel coat, I highly recommend against it unless the gel is really just falling off the boat, you are an expert at fairing and shaping rough fiberglass, and have a lot of spare time. Remind me later for more detail on what I'd do, or give me a ph# and we can talk about it. It's not a hard process just detailed. it requires copious cleaning, some sanding and normal finish work. I've driven 500 miles and tore down a v-8 engine after work so I'm beat just now, but happy to help. Where does the patient live? Stan --- On Wed, 4/6/11, Kevin Wood <kwoocon@msn.com> wrote: From: Kevin Wood <kwoocon@msn.com> Subject: Re: M_Boats: Griselda's new dinghy! To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com Date: Wednesday, April 6, 2011, 6:21 PM Skip, I'm with Jerry sand it down with 80 grit to get all the old gelcoat off. Patch any gouges, chips, cracks with epoxy mixed with micro balloons for faring compound. Sand it again with 120 grit. A couple of coats of epoxy primer, sand with 220 between coats. Then one part Polyurethane paint. And get a good paint brush! Spend big money for the brush and clean it. A good brush makes all the difference in the quality of the finished paint job. Kevin
From: jerry@jerrymontgomery.org To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 12:48:01 -0700 Subject: Re: M_Boats: Griselda's new dinghy!
It's probably most ly crazing from 40 years of UV. I'd sand the gelcoat off, give it a good coat of epoxy primer, then paint it with polyurethane.
Maybe Stan the paint man will pipe in. He was probably working for me when that boat was made. Wouldn't be the only one he screwed up!
jerry ----- Original Message ----- From: <wcampion@aol.com> To: <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 11:40 AM Subject: Re: M_Boats: Griselda's new dinghy!
Nice dinghy Jeremy!! I love the wooden boom, very rustic!! I like the idea of the planned paint job. Please post pics when you have completed the job.
I just picked up my 'new to me' M-10 (#177) and I'm in the process of restoring her too. Although she appears to be in pretty good shape for her age, she does have extreme crazing on the hull. I have never faced this challenge before and I would like to restore her to as close to original as possible. Based on the MFG plate, she was built by Jerry but I don't have an exact year. I'm guessing she was built soon after Jerry bought the molds from Richard Arthur and opened up Montgomery Marine Products. Since Jerry was working at Arthur Marine when he met Lyle, maybe he had a hand in making your boat also? Anyway.......I could use some advice from the experts on this site who can advice me on the best way to deal with fixing my crazing issue. I have no experience with 2 part epoxy paint or gel coat, or resin. or etc. I would like it too look nice when I'm done so to guarantee a professional looking job, I check with a local marina to see what they would charge for fixing the crazing and lets just say, I would be crazy to pay what they were asking to fix a 10 foot dinghy. So, on to 'Plan B'. I will need to perform the restoration myself. So if anyone has any 'idiot' proof suggestions for repairing the hull, I'd appreciate any tips.
Thanks in Advance, Skip
M-15 - 1982 #201 'Wild Guppy' M-10 - 197x #177 'Lil Guppy'
-----Original Message----- From: Bowman, Jeremy <JeremyBowman@my.unt.edu> To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wed, Apr 6, 2011 1:16 pm Subject: M_Boats: Griselda's new dinghy!
I got the 9' dinghy! Here are some photos: http://s61.photobucket.com/albums/h63/jiminypricket/dinghy/ The only thing missing is a gooseneck pin, and one of the oars is broken. I on't think the mast or sail are original, but they work. The sail bag is really nteresting. In the picture you can see the current design, it says "20 SPIN". ut in faded letters underneath the design, it reads "M17 Genoa"...which of ourse makes me very curious about the history of the bag and the boat in eneral. Don Rypinski owned it before the guy I got it from. Don created "Back Bay oatworks" and also worked with Richard Arthur (of Arthur Marine) on the Balboa 0s, so he was around Lyle Hess and Jerry Montgomery at the time the dinghy was uilt. If anyone knows more about the boat (like, what model is it, besides "9"? or "A "?), please let me know. In the future I plan to match the paint with Griselda (black bottom, green hull, old boot and cove stripe, gold letters). I want to come up with a good name but m not sure what... I thought about something like "Doughter" (middle English or "Daughter") because it's being "reunited" with Griselda (in the story, riselda's husband takes her children away, but later brings them back). But Doughter" seems like a weird name... ______________________________________________ ttp://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats When posting, remember that there is no privacy on the Internet!
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