Is that a compliment

Compliment? What was that you said. Okay some back ground. My Bro drives for 2 day to get here and walks into the Garage. He obviously can't wait to see his boat. He circles around it looking, touching and not saying much. I am think "Yo dude how about some enthusiasm". At about that time he says "it look as good as a production hull". Oh...is that a compliment? To which he replies well what I meant was it is perfect. Well that helped. Are you saying you thought it would be anything less?

Time for a beer.

removing the strong back

Oh it is a thing of beauty.
Now the other end and flip it off.
I did a good job of placing the 2x4
Hey I know your shoulder is hurt but do you think you can throw 2x4 under here when I lift it.
Taking the screws out.

flipping it over

Almost got the fig tree.

Dog say let her go.
That's me in the black looking like I am doing something after shoulder surgery.
He is checking my work.
My brother came down to help finish the hull. Here i am placing moving pads on the ground

the painted hull

looking quite nice.

what I did to apply the urethane.

It was quite apparent to me that I am not very good a spraying the urethane. I had to try something else. But what you ask. Well I did a google search on applying urethane coatings. Read some forum posts discarded all the ego answers of you have to spay it for the best finish and decided to go with a foam roller and china bristle brush. I would have loved to had gotten pictures of this but it just wasn't possible for me by myself.

The trick is to just bearly wet the roller. Then roll it out on the surface until it is wet looking. This is important because if you try to make it cover like house paint it WILL RUN. I rolled the urethane on very lightly. I did the whole side then using the brush I drug the tip from stem to stern. Perfect sprayed on glass finish. No. But very respectable. Yes. I sanded between coats.

something I suck at

The good part is...the blister patch looks good.
Used a squeegee to remove some before it hardened.
Okay It is pictures like this that make me drink. I am using a three part urethane coating. It is a military spec. commercial coating that apparently likes to be sprayed very thin. Ugh it took me 3 hrs to sand all the runs out.

filleting the rub rail

Here is how it looks from a front view.
Then I went back and ran a finger along the joint to smooth it out.
Since I was fixing the blister I just made extra epoxy and filler and put it in a heavy duty ziplock bag. Then I nipped a corner off and used it like a cake decorator.