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Hi all I hope you are enjoying your summer. Thanks for following my resto over the years and the comments of support they really helped. For my final post I would like to show some water pics these are from a house boat trip on the River Murray south Australia. These pics are from a costal...

I also started the motor surprisingly after sitting for 4 years it ran well.

With the carpet done I finally got to fit out the rest of the boat.

It was a good weekend working on the boat. Fitted the motor back on and did all the electrics. Next weekend the carpet gets layed and then she should be ready for a blast up the mighty murray river.

Hi have finish making the first set of seats and sat them in to see how they feel, they should look good when I lay the carpet later in the week.... Very happy with them !!!

Hi no I havent dealt with them cheers..

Thanks Sean your boat looks fabulous. I hope you sort out the mechanics before next summer I have been to vancouver and victoria your country and lakes are beautiful. I live in Adelaide we just had a 36 c day a great start to summer. You are right all the hard work has been done all I need to do...

Sean this boat has taken me years to fix and in january we have a house boat booked. The plan is to take the boat fingers crossed..

Painted the boat today the colour is Toxic green. And started on the seats

Did some more today with a final sand and painted the primer.

Well done looks great bet you cant wait till summer.

The boat is ready for the primer.I will be using Protec paint. 408 EPOTEC PRIMER.

Sarted to sand the boat i'm only going to paint the black gelcoat. There are a few chips and blemishes to fill. You can see lots of fine cracks in the surface how far do you sand back and will the under coat fill the fine crack?

The splash well is back on and have started to rubbing it back for painting.

What a great job and hard work look forward to seeing more.

Yes i have put the top back on and preparing to paint haven't taken a photo yet. Its not good when you have to rework bits you have all ready done removing the whole splash well was a good option for me. Im not sure what paint to use yet thinking a modern 2 pack auto paint as it has a fine...

I have used a non air inhibited polyester coating which i applied to the hull.I mix a red pigmet for the transom.

Can some one help me with this.I am going to flow coat the the transom but before i finish the floor should i flow coat below the floor line first. Chris no there were no transom knees I think I will leave it how it is. Cheers.

A few years later I have managed to get back to the job. I have glass 5 layers to the inside and hope to finish the boat over the next few weeks. Not sure how many layer I should do if any one can answer that thanks. A few pics.

Sorry my question was for bigredinohio.