Sailing, 2004:
![Image](http://www.dasein668.com/art/sailing/2004/23june04/quarterShot.jpg)
Deck Condition, pre-2005:
![Image](http://www.dasein668.com/art/projects/winter0405/decks/deckCondition01.jpg)
Early Winter, 2005:
![Image](http://www.dasein668.com/art/projects/winter0405/decks/fairing/fairR301.jpg)
New Taffrail Design:
![Image](http://www.dasein668.com/art/forumArt/inProgressTaffrail.jpg)
In Progress, April 2005:
![Image](http://www.dasein668.com/art/forumArt/inProgress.jpg)
Come on, Ang...all our boats started out looking terrible. The beauty of project boats is the transformation more than the end result (as nice as that might be). No one here will look down in the least, as we all know the potential locked within!windrose wrote:Jeez, Nathan.... now I am embarrassed to post any photos of my boat. WOW! That looks incredible.
Trying to keep up with the Jones' in your neighborhood sounds pretty challenging to me.Frankly, I'm more impressed with the work that people like <insert hero names here> are doing, since they are working under more challenging conditions!
It can't' be any worse than my boat. At the moment I am moving in the wrong direction. It was a "sail-away" after all. And like Tim says, they all start somewhere in the "needs improvement" category....now I am embarrassed to post any photos of my boat
Unless someone emerges who claims the boat in the Virgin Islands-It can't' be any worse than my boat.
Well, I'm not really sure about that yet. Running lines under sounds dicey, but I don't want to muck things up with big ol' gaumy chocks either... Time will tell.Figment wrote:Are you planning to mount chocks atop the taffrail, or will stern lines pass under?
Can you believe that with the gazillion times I've been through that door, I'm not actually sure?! I want to say Leopard, but somehow that doesn't seem right....Figment wrote:Looking closer... what manner of beast is that mounted on the plaque?
I know, I know...I need to turn it around, but then I'd have to figure out some means of hanging it!Figment wrote:What's hanging on the wall in the background of that taffrail photo? Looks like an offcut from the daysailor's curved cabin. When ya hang a horseshoe over a door, you're supposed to hang it the other way, so's the luck won't run out!
That's an African leopard. This classy little number came from a small A-frame cottage that Heidi's dad owned. When he sold it, we ended up with this prize, which just seemed perfectly suited to the barn.Figment wrote:Looking closer... what manner of beast is that mounted on the plaque?
The final job in getting the boat painted was to paint the nonskid on deck. The first step was to remask all of the nonskid areas. I then had to sand some minor white overspray from the nonskid areas. Once this was done I vacumed the decks and tacked off. I then prepared the paint.
I chose Petit's Easypoxy one-part polyurethane paint mixed with flattening agent and polymeric nonskid beads. I wanted a neutral grey color that was not too dark and after much thought I ended up mixing my own color using Petit's Platinum and Mist Gray. For the first coat I used a 50-50 mix of the two colors, which a small sample had shown to be close to what I envisioned. However, after rolling it on the large deck areas, I decided that it was too dark and industrial looking. I had planned two coats anyway however, so I resolved to lightent the mix for the second coat. The photo shows the lighter grey being painted over the darker first coat to show the difference.
I found that the nonskid rolled on nicely using a 3/8 inch nap roller and applied a very even nonskid texture with only a few uneven areas. The second coat increased the nonskid texture and helped even it out further. I found the Pettit nonskid additive to provide a quite aggressive nonskid texture?more so than the similar Interlux product.
Thanks for saying so Mark. I do quite a bit of photography, though on the boat I consider my pictures "just snaps" as I'm shooting with a cheap digital.tikvah59 wrote:You probably know this, Nathan, but you have a great eye. You should send some of them in to Good Old Boat - like the sunset or the one before the storm.
Does anyone know what the protocol would be for a split backstay - would the flag go on the port or starboard stay? If I had to guess I'd go with port, as the courtesy flag goes on the starboard forward spreader, but not sure.Figment wrote:does your backstay flag halyard run all the way to the masthead, or did you lash a block to the backstay halfway up?
If you visit a foreign country, it's typical to fly a small version of their national flag from the starboard spreader as a courtesy--hence "courtesy flag".rshowarth wrote:Please advise: What is a courtesy flag?
What are you speaking of, Mike?Figment wrote:There's nothing cooler than a nice simple detail like that.
Tim wrote:If you visit a foreign country, it's typical to fly a small version of their national flag from the starboard spreader as a courtesy--hence "courtesy flag".rshowarth wrote:Please advise: What is a courtesy flag?
Oh, right. Thanks for saying so. I liked the solution myself. Plus it had the added benefit of costing about 5 bucks instead of 45 for a "flag halyard kit." I was also worried that a big gaumy block up there might chew up the roach of my sail...Figment wrote: The triangular ring served to the backstay.
Simple, elegant, perfectly adequate for the task.
A courtesy flag can (should?) be flown while you are sailing in foreign waters, and should be the civil flag of that country. There's some information on flagging at: http://www.waypoints.com/popups/flagetiquette.htmlrshowarth wrote:Please advise: What is a courtesy flag?