Commander 26 Re Build

[Gong Show]

Yeah, it was crazy the lengths to get the perfect bottom.
Yet, you screw up one tack or mark rounding, and you lose ten times the time you would gain from that perfect bottom.

I digress, more boat **** pictures please @Sttr !

 

[Gong Show]

Whatta hell, can't type p@rn anymore?
What's the world coming to?

 

[ab1752]

Whatta hell, can't type p@rn anymore?
What's the world coming to?

Pron works? Boom

 

[Sttr]

In my boat racing days, some would put their boat upside down in a darkened room, take a straight edge and a light to look for any imperfections.

I’m equipped to flip this commander upside down and block it from the deck

 

[Sttr]

Sailboat racers longboard their hulls for perfection.
Get a roll of adhesive backed sandpaper and then cut a 3' long board out of 1/4" ply, attach a couple of pieces of 2x4 for handles on the back.

This is the exterior that you see everytime you approach the boat, I would be repeatedly kicking myself in the nuts if my stringers looked better than my gelcoat. And your stringers look awesome.

3 foot eh…. Will keep that in mind
Right now I’m rocking 21 inches

 

[Sttr]

Does anyone know what’s up the the stern door on this beauty? Is it missing or just built like that?

 

[Sttr]

Well I only need one guy to ask me for some more boat pron

Here’s some really dirty pics

 

[Rain City]

Well I only need one guy to ask me for some more boat pron

Here’s some really dirty picsView attachment 83439View attachment 83440View attachment 83441View attachment 83442View attachment 83443View attachment 83444View attachment 83445View attachment 83446View attachment 83447View attachment 83448

What the hell is going on there?

 

[Sttr]

What the hell is going on there?

Dirty dirty boat pics

 

[Gong Show]

I like em dirty but wow!

 

[Sttr]

Ok that was nasty,
But we all knew what was under there
Few spots we went thru the hull prepping for stringers and others where a layer away.
Maybe I added a bit of mayhem with a little wet sand blaster today but it needed to be exposed, those are the worst areas, mostly cleaned up very well.
Overall I’m enjoying sanding with Ron, listening to Spanish guitar songs, Finished up 220 and 400 (almost) today. Here’s a few pics of her clean up a bit

 

[Rayvon]

You haven't had the full experience of boat repair until you've laid on your back and ground fiberglass overhead.Your goggles/mask fog up,get layered in dust,your arms feel like rubber and shoulders ache.Then you glass ,grind again,fill,sand again,wonder why you took this on etc.ENJOY.

 

[Steplift]

It sure is starting to seem like that LoL
I’m curious to see how this bends, I’m a bit worried it’s going to kink the stainless. I have a few end caps and joints that came with it. Not sure how I feel about them. I’m looking into other end caps or even corner caps.
Was hoping to have a spare piece of rail I can experiment with but that’s not the case, I need them all.
The first bend will tell all.View attachment 83391

Fill it full of dry sand before you bend it that way it wont kink on you

 

[Sttr]

You haven't had the full experience of boat repair until you've laid on your back and ground fiberglass overhead.Your goggles/mask fog up,get layered in dust,your arms feel like rubber and shoulders ache.Then you glass ,grind again,fill,sand again,wonder why you took this on etc.ENJOY.

U got everything right except the last part
It’s like you know what I’m doing and you been here before hahahah
It’s snowing in august

 

[Sttr]

Fill it full of dry sand before you bend it that way it wont kink on you

It’s filled with some rubber compound

 

[Sttr]

You haven't had the full experience of boat repair until you've laid on your back and ground fiberglass overhead.Your goggles/mask fog up,get layered in dust,your arms feel like rubber and shoulders ache.Then you glass ,grind again,fill,sand again,wonder why you took this on etc.ENJOY.

I hope you re not on pain killers because of me

 

[Rayvon]

Bad back from working on boats for 40 years. That trim is a new kind I've never seen,are there no holes for fasteners? Seems odd to me that you would have to drill and counter sink.I would have thought it would be solid stainless.What are the dimensions /width?

 

[Sttr]

Bad back from working on boats for 40 years. That trim is a new kind I've never seen,are there no holes for fasteners? Seems odd to me that you would have to drill and counter sink.I would have thought it would be solid stainless.What are the dimensions /width?

Stainless part is 1 1/2, white mold is 2 1/2 if I remember right.
The mold has no holes for fasteners also

 

[Sttr]

Here’s a few pics of today, sides are done to 800. There are a couple low spots to spray once more. The part where the rear cabin wall connects to the hull turned out great, I was a bit worried we would see a outline of the wall thru the hull but that’s not the case.
I was able to remove half the gel coat from the bottom of hull today with a 40 grit pad.

 

[Rayvon]

I think the trim you bought may be too big for your boat and could be very hard to install.But please prove me wrong.The effort your putting into this is amazing and hopefully rewarding.