windrose wrote:
I am curious as to what product you used to bring the shine on her hull back up like that, looks great.
Thanks! It's just two coats of pre-kote and one of brightsides plain white (I would have liked to do two, but no time!) There's only less than a millimeter of gelcoat, and it's very dull, so I think she definitely needed paint. The pre-kote went on with a medium nap roller and ended up very orange-peely. In retrospect I wish I'd roll-and-tipped it, because I ended up having to keep much of the primer texture. I only had about 18 hours to let it dry, so in daytime 60 F and nighttime 40 F weather it wasn't completely dry by sanding time. Sanding it with the 14K rpm palm sander was making it look bad, so I hand sanded most of it, and of course I couldn't take all the orange-peel off by hand. Had I roll-and-tipped the primer, the underlying texture would have been easier to hand-sand out, I think. Still, I'll take orange-peel over brush marks, but that's a personal preference. The Brightsides went on with a fine foam roller and I tipped it out. It was 50 F, so there are a couple runs where it just wouldn't dry fast enough. Overall, this being my first time, and having done all coats myself in 3 days, I'm happy with the result :-)
Summersdawn wrote:A reverse transom is created by putting a "dam" at the back of a mold.
If the JR was made from an Electra mold using the dam method, wouldn't the resulting length of the JR be slightly *shorter* than the Electra? To get a longer LOA but reverse transom, you'd have to extend the mold at the hullsides near the transom, no? The BUC (whose accuracy is now in question) gives the JR as 23'4" (I'm assuming LOA) and I'm finding the Electra specs say LOA 22'5".
Two more (so far useless) pieces to the puzzle: a) my title states the year of manufacture as 1965, whereas BUC claims the boat was only made in '68. Since I've seen how mangled information gets every time the boat changes ownership and gets re-registered, I wouldn't believe the registration date. b) How did at least 4 JRs get from Jacksonville, FL (where they were allegedly manufactured by Windward) to California? If this boat was made only one year, and my hull is number 27 (as the title claims), then I would expect this model to have gone the way of the dodo, simply due to how rare it is. Yet, somehow, there are at least 4 in North and Central California alone!
Tim wrote:Well, BUC information is not known to be highly accurate much of the time, so don't let that worry you.
I would have felt a lot more comfortable had you said, "well, travelifts are not known to be highly accurate..." :-)
Case wrote: This is getting interesting, at least for me.
I'm glad to see someone else finds this fascinating :-)
If anyone can think of measurements that I could perform to resolve the Electra mold issue, let me know soon, or hold your peace until January when I'll next have physical access to the boat. In the meantime, I'll try to leave a note on the "Spam", the other JR in Santa Barbara, this weekend. Perhaps the owners have some information to contribute.