Plastic Classic Forum

Rachel, Yes, we spoke with Gordon. The ones he has have a 2-1/2" gap between straps so they won't really work, or would require some serious building up of the rudder and keel. We own #171 built in 66'. We actually found a source for the hardware, mystic river foundry. I am just going to make a...

Hello all - We are in search of a set of bronze pintles and gugeons for our alberg 30. We have found a set that would work from port townsend foundry but are having some "difficulties" with them. Does anyone know of any other source? They are both the "fork" type 1/2" pin, 1...

Ok soo, im still here. Things with the paint have been going pretty slow, have been working on all the other projects to get osprey ready for bluewater sailing... but after 5 coats of 545 primer we finally got the first coat of "sky blue" awlgrip on osprey. The color is well blue for sure,...

I like a 3/16" nap mohair roller I bought a few of these for the top coats, I think I will give them a try why not. Not much happened today, the wind picked up early so all i did was wet sand the hull with 220. Don't ask why but for some reason I like wet sanding by hand 100 times more then an...

Finally, got the first coat of white 545 primer on today. Started early this AM sanding out the rest of the filler, after that was finished gave the boat a bath followed by a wipe down with acetone...After the acetone, i rewiped with T0115 and then with T0008..The temp was in the high 60's. I then m...

Thanks Tynaje..I like the idea of using the 545 to coat lockers, Ill have to keep that in mind. Definitely not in the cards at this point...Ill keep everyone posted.

Anyone ever used the Awlgrip Cold cure accelerator for the 545 primer, or the pro-cure for the top coats? Just wonding if it will help here in RI, temps will be between 65 -75 or so (i hope at least) when applying..I belive this is considered cool for awlgrip...suggestions??

I am assuming Osprey has to endure the same Got that right...All prep so far we are hoping to get the first coat of 545 primer on saturday. We had lots of filling and fairing to do, especially in the area of the hull to deck joint. There origonally was a teak rubrail just below the deck mounted toe...

Well we had some rain this morning so didn't get to the boat untill the afternoon, gave me some time to install the new masthead, and pull some wire through the new conduit we installed in the mast. Its definitely a nice change from fairing and sanding. It looks like we will have a coat of primer on...

Osprey, This is a 6 year old Awlcraft 2000 paint job, very dirty and not yet cleaned for the season. It has a depth of shine you wont get in Polyester Awlgrip "classic", plus its much much much more user friendly wow! that is quite the shine. I do like that symbolic reach. I have heard go...

Trevor, I am in Jamestown and travel to Stonington and Mystic everyday. I would like to take a look at your boat and talk you into driving to Stonington AND Mystic to look at two boats. I would love to see the boats. Although we are super busy right now trying to get everything put back together an...

Thanks Dave...The white is sandable to flat and fair, although I have a hunch it is an old single part of some type. With that said, it can't hurt to take it off. Whats a few more hours with the sander anyway..

Hello all, well, after reading everyone elses projects I figured it was time to join and post my own. So we were recently hauled our 66' Alberg 30 "Osprey" and one of the big projects to take care of was the teak toerail... well that quickly changed from toerail rebedding to toerail replac...