Bit Boat
Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 8:51 am
All right, to answer SG's question and mostly because I suck at deadlines, Here is the up to date progression of my Bit Boat.
So first for insperation. After my inlaws won the Dutch lotery last Summer they did what all newly loaded people would do, buy a boat.
Well once we started getting ideas for what the next Summer competition would be and Sg suggested convertables and boats, I started planning. Problem was, lack in funds ment I had to wait till Fatherdays to get my NKOK boat. Well the fated day came, I drove it for the afternoon and had a blast. When the sun went down tho, it was time to rip her up.
After that I used the best thing I have ever bought from Radio Shack, a Zip Zap box to fabricate the deck and cabin along with credit card material. Tape was applied to hold her together for the epoxy session.
Used wicked (yeah I am from Maine) thin lines of epoxy.
And some Polish goodness to hold the deck tight.
Here she is all put together.
Here is where it starts to get crazy. Used a small hand drill tool and used cut needles to make the guard rail and then stupidly used thread, where I should have used fishing line. As you can see in the next picture all the little fibers cake up the paint pretty well. I hope I can just trim it down. Used some Toothpicks for the antena mast. Also after 2 coats of primer, the friggin Red still makes the haul a pink tint. This problem is what has taken me 3 days to fix and has made me miss the Swig Bling dead line. Oh yeah the windows are taped off.
So there you have it, I decided I am confident in my other entries to not rush this job and just make it kick ass. Sucks but hell it's always been a trend in my life
So first for insperation. After my inlaws won the Dutch lotery last Summer they did what all newly loaded people would do, buy a boat.
Well once we started getting ideas for what the next Summer competition would be and Sg suggested convertables and boats, I started planning. Problem was, lack in funds ment I had to wait till Fatherdays to get my NKOK boat. Well the fated day came, I drove it for the afternoon and had a blast. When the sun went down tho, it was time to rip her up.
After that I used the best thing I have ever bought from Radio Shack, a Zip Zap box to fabricate the deck and cabin along with credit card material. Tape was applied to hold her together for the epoxy session.
Used wicked (yeah I am from Maine) thin lines of epoxy.
And some Polish goodness to hold the deck tight.
Here she is all put together.
Here is where it starts to get crazy. Used a small hand drill tool and used cut needles to make the guard rail and then stupidly used thread, where I should have used fishing line. As you can see in the next picture all the little fibers cake up the paint pretty well. I hope I can just trim it down. Used some Toothpicks for the antena mast. Also after 2 coats of primer, the friggin Red still makes the haul a pink tint. This problem is what has taken me 3 days to fix and has made me miss the Swig Bling dead line. Oh yeah the windows are taped off.
So there you have it, I decided I am confident in my other entries to not rush this job and just make it kick ass. Sucks but hell it's always been a trend in my life
it's crap like this that makes me wanna make a boat of my own, even though i got nowhere to run it properly!
