Last of the Fiberglass!!!

Finally!!! The last of the fiberglass is done!!! What a HUGE step forward!!! More like a leap. Forward. We have often felt that we go forward then two back then one forward and sometimes just move in a lateral direction.

SO....FINALLY...

Saturday, September 9

We lay the LAST layer of fiberglass (four layers total)! We placed it bowling alley style again (aft to fore). However we did it a bit differently than the second layer. The second layer we began with the hatch side of the deck and this time we began with the other side. I am not sure why we decided to do that. So we dry-fitted the fiberglass (cutting the edges) and then began to adhere it. It took WAY longer than the second layer. About twice as long. I am not sure why. We did the non-hatch side and then the hatch side and it took ALL DAY!!! As in 10-4!!! Maybe we have aged so much in this rebuild process that it takes us twice as long to do anything!

The finished product does look amazing though!

And then I found out we have to MUD the fiberglass and let it dry...sand it and THEN paint it! I swear I am in some sort of time warp where I will infinitely be working on this recoring project!!! HELP!!!! :)

Sunday

For some reason we decided to paint a boot stripe. We had previously decided we would wait a year and THEN determine if we wanted to paint it, but Shawn gets antsy and randomly picks up these "little projects" to do. So I taped and painted a boot stripe. To paint the boot stripe takes 3 parts of tape: the bottom tape which runs along the bottom paint Line (assuming it is straight)...then a middle tape line the width of the desired boot stripe...then the top layer of tape. The middle tape layer is peeled off so that paint is applied there. That's why it takes so long to do. I put the bottom tape layer and the middle tape layer and Shawn put the top layer of tape. (You can see Shawn's brilliant idea of only doing small sections of the middle layer of tape).

And we painted a second coat on the bridge. AND put the railings and "stuff" back on the bridge

So at the end of the weekend...we simply have to mud and paint the flybridge deck and then put the flybridge back on and we can launch the Yellowbird!!!

And let me tell you...once we get the YellowBird back at our dock...we will be doing NOTHING but all the fun things we put aside to complete this project!