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Two layers of Pettit Vivid bottom paint were applied over the primer coats. The original brass keel guard was removed, the screw holes were drilled out and filled with thickened epoxy, then the keel guard was re-installed. The newly applied bottom paint was sanded away where a new 8' KeelGuard...

Once exterior repairs to the hull were made, three layers of Pettit epoxy primer were applied as a barrier coat. What appears to be dark blue paint in this photo is the same gray primer, just in shadow.

Because the section of the boat above the rubrail had many areas of spider cracking, I just removed all the gelcoat from that part of the boat. In some spots the spider cracking continued into the fiberglass so I removed that as well, and then put new fiberglass over the entire area. I used...

Gelcoat spider crack removal. What a nightmare to repair, or so I thought until I consulted with Andy of Boatworks Today. He convinced me to just abandon the gelcoat and completely sand it off wherever there was spider cracking, put new fiberglass over those areas, and then paint the boat with a...

Rub rail removal. That big coil on the ground is the old rub rail. It was still functional, but ugly. It went to the landfill.

I sanded the paint off the patch and surrounding area and built up the area with epoxy resin and four layers of 1708 until the contour of the patch matched the surrounding area of the hull. The white spots are thickened eopxy under the glass, that I used to fill voids in the old repair (which...

Section of bulkhead has been replaced. The light green substance is fairing compound that was laid over the fiberglass. Next up, lay down a new fiberglass top skin on the cabin floor!

New balsa core in place. Because the fiberglass under the core is now so much thinker, I had to sand down the bottom of the new core so that it would fit the coutour of the patch.

Five more layers of 1708 and epoxy resin and fiberglass repair is finished.

Here I've removed the original fiberglass patch and sanded down to the epoxy layers I laid from the bottom. The area has been painted with epoxy resin in preparation for new layers of fiberglass to go on top. Also note at this point I pulled the entire floor up because I found unacceptably high...

More core and old foam repair have been removed, exposing the original shoddy fiberglass repair, which now has four new layers of fiberglass underneath it.

Sure enough I found wet rotted core directly above the patch on the hull. Whoever did the repair just fiberglassed over core damage and called it good!

After I removed some wet rotted balsa core I discovered they had actually removed some of the damaged core and squirted in some of that expanding foam insulation to "repair" the damage! (Note that I had to remove some of the cabin bulwark to give access to the repair area.)

I wasn't comfortable with what might be on the other side of that patch in the hull so that area will be opened up and removed. I also went over the floor with a moisture meter.

There was a painted section on the bottom of the hull that appeared "flat" - meaning it didn't follow the contour of the surrounding fiberglass. It just looked like a shoddy repair to me and I couldn't live with that.

I’m looking for your opinions on what the ideal window wiper setup on a 22’ Cruiser would be. The new 22 I saw at the Portland Boat Show today has electric pantograph wiper blades mounted at the top of the windows. My ‘99 came with manual wipers mounted at the bottom of the windows. As part of...

Yes, and cameras too. We get lots of cold rainy days in the PNW and when camera lenses get cold they fog up. Lots of uses for a little 800W hair dryer. Yes, laptops, and also chargers for cordless tool batteries.

Thank you for the kind words Bob. I still have my trusty K&E slide rule (kids today don't know what they're missing), but it never saw work anywhere near like what you father did with his. That's impressive! You should be able to zoom in for better detail. If viewing on a desktop, there should...

Well I thought it would be helpful to post a schematic of my power circuitry, but there are a couple problems with this. The jpeg my CAD system creates gets re-sized by this website, making it too blurry to read. My workaround was to make a pdf file, which is much smaller, but this website...

The small 1000W inverter is located under the starboard berth. Nothing critical will be powered by the inverter. It’s there primarily as a convenience for any portable battery chargers that require 120VAC, as well as a small hair dryer that can be used to dry things out. Thus it is not switched...