Plastic Classic Forum

I've updated the original post.

Well let's see, how to put it ... Holy Smokes! The first coat of 545 is on, and it is most definitely different from the high build. We didn't make it all the up the learning curve. The best we say that we can kind of see where the top of the curve is now. We had two major issues. The first was that...

Three of us went in the boat about 7 years ago. A few years before that, a group of us were sailing around the apostle islands, and someone told the story of the winner of the women's 1980 Boston marithon - Rosie Ruiz. Apparently she jumped onto the course with just a mile to go and crossed the line...

Of course, if your applications are uneven, or poorly leveling, or contain runs, sags, and drips, it's fruitless to apply additional coats before sanding out the flaws. Is the problem that putting a coat over a drip, for example, would make it more difficult to sand it out later, or that the drip d...

We're leaning towards using a traditional varnish (spar?) with 10 coats. Can this be done before installation, or would the bending damage the varnish somehow (e.g. crack)? If varnishing before is not recommended, how about the combings (the don't bend nearly as much)? Also, how many coats (if any) ...

Thanks Rachel for the welcome! As Todd mentioned he's got the project pictures. I'm going to try to attach a picture taken a few years ago at a regatta at our yacht club. Wish me luck. rosie_1.tif Hoo hoo - it worked! Thanks Tim for the feedback. So if we find that putting a second coat on would mak...

[I just noticed that Todd posted the same questions as I asked below, but I think I'll post this anyways. Sorry for the redundancy] This post will serve two purposes. The first is to introduce myself as this is my first post on this forum. I'm a co-owner of Rosie, the same Tartan 27 as Todd's (the O...