Category: Boat Repairs
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Photos of Dad’s Boat ‘The Toad’
While I have put a number of photos of rebuilding and repairing Dad’s boat, I haven’t put any photos up of the finished boat. Unfortunately it would probably have been better to take these photos before breaking the mast and punching a hole in the deck. I took a liberty with name of the boat.…
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Undercoat nearly done
The first two coats of the undercoat have been done. A few spots that haven’t been faired properly popped up, so it looks as though another coat is in order. The spot on the side is where the hole has been filled in. The sides aren’t as smooth as I thought. The stern of the…
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Impulse 378, After the fairing
I have now patched everything to the extent that I am happy with, the back of the boat isn’t exactly perfect but I would end up with a boat that is all filler to get everything 100%. I suspect that somewhere along the way the boat has had a solid bang in the back and…
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Stripped Boat
Well after several ear splitting days the boat has been completely sanded back to either wood or fibreglass. When the fibreglass was laid on the bottom of the boat the original paint had not been completely removed, so a deep burgundy color and white shows through in places. For the record the bottom of the boat had…
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Starting on “Prince Toad”
A couple of weeks ago I brought Dad’s boat home to do some work on it. Well there is a fair bit of work to do, but hopefully I will get most of it done over the holidays. Here are photos of the boat in it’s ‘initial’ state. The hole in the side had been…