Come and see John at the boat show. We also have a celebrity broker — Scott Kinney who used to be with the Grand Banks management team is helping out with the show and is a virtual warehouse of knowledge about the Grand Banks. Between the 2 of them, there is probably no question that can’t be answered. Have a drink for me while you’re there!
Yesterday was such a whirlwind of activity I didn’t get much of a chance to take any photos. The EB 49 swim platform had previously been repaired but we wanted to sand the whole thing to make it boat show quality — we are probably competing against some very nice boats and don’t want to let our defenses down.
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This was the last boat launched and John made it over to the show just in the nick of time. Funny how that always seem to work out.
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I only have two guys out in the shop today and they are preparing to double stripe the boot on the Navy 44 we painted a few weeks ago. The owner wanted green (?) stripes. We mixed a custom green which had about 20% of the hull color in it. It will at least be close to a good match after introducing the blue to it.
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We run a strip of fineline tape, but a 1″ masking tape, run another strip of fineline and then pull the masking tape. That should work fine until we get to the aft end where there is quite a bit of flare to the boot top. It will then be strictly talent to finish off.
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Invitation to the Boat Show
httpv://youtu.be/PQvCIVNkIPQ