Perry Wraps Up Name
Here Perry of Signs By Jackie puts the last stencil on the transom for the gold part of the lettering. Once the gold is done drying the name will be ready for clear coats.
184 pound Tuna Leads for New Biggest Of The Year
Rob Ellyn and Tracy took Dave Louden out fishing on the 37 today. I had to get the pod on the tower done so the painters and I could paint it to get the tower. Fiberglass work just isn’t as fun as fishing. They found the porpoise and got bit on the first pass. The …
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Tuna Tubes
I had a bit of a snag on the tuna tubes. I was making them as the job here was moving along and had to stop to get other things done that needed to get done first. One of the was the covering boards on before we could paint. The plan for getting the tubes …
Boot Stripe Done
Happy New Year
Happy New year everone. Sorry for the delay in my posts. I have been spending the holiday season at the new boat working as many hours as I can. We have come a long way in a short time and really have done a lot of work for a reasonable amount of money. I have …
South Point Trip
My good friend Brian Benda Balencio and I went to South Point on my 29 foot Radon to catch fish for the new year. Sorry for the terrible picture. It is the only one that survived a desaster with the camera card getting deleted. We were expecting to have good weather and found that the …
Wide Billy
Sam Hicks shot this nice wide billy with us and Delico ranch. We took him early after we found him in the 3rd heard we saw. A truck passed and spooked the whole herd we were watching and this Billy and 2 more nice ones brought up the back. They stopped long enough for us …
Boot Stripes
Here we are putting on the gold boot stripe. Blue tomorrow.
Name Time
We are doing the name in gold with a blue back ground and aback out line. Perry from Signs by Jackie Made me the stencils and stuck them on the back. I sanded and sprayed the black first. He came back and put the blue stencil on and we sprayed that over the top. The …
Hard Top Getting Close
The hard top has been taking awhile to get done. I keep getting side tracked with other jobs. I finally sprayed the edge and we continue to work on the new channels for the wiring and the teaser reel pod and radar pods. We made a cut out for a drop down electronics box that …
Spraying the Clear Coats
Tracy’s varnish is coming along well. I started to spray the building coats of clear Awlgrip over the varnish that Tracy and Steve put on the varnish early in the job. We need to let the varnish cure until week 5. We didn’t sand it back much yet because we are still trying to build …
Mike Price
Nice billy at Delico Ranch for Mike Price. Good herds up on the bluff early today. We had a bunch of nice ones to choose from. The weather was great. We shot at about 75 yards and he ran over the side of the cliff and fell off coming to a stop about 40 yards …
Shine Shine Shine
Mike Akazawa sprayed the hull today. I had to guide a hunt so it worked out great. No work can be done around the boat while the painting is underway so this is what I found when I got back. it really came out great and with all the work we did to the bat …
Primer on the hull
We tried our best to not paint the hull. It was in good shape but for a number of reasons decided to paint it. The paint had a year or 2 left in it but what made the most sense in the long run was to paint the hull while the boat was here all …