While waiting on the blue gel to arrive, I got a call from a fisherman friend saying he had a friend heading to Seattle in a 150’ packer and would bring my two boats there for free!!
The bummer was that they had to be at the fish plant the next morning.
Made a stand for the mini and bundled up the Glastron GT-150 working into the evening.
Next morning they were loaded on the packer.
Once it got to our Washington shop, it got rolled into a corner and put on the back burner.
When I finished the HST rebuild, I had extra gel coat additive and top coat that has a shelf life . So out it came, unloaded the inside and started to finish it.
Ironically, the gel I ordered , arrived a week after the mini had left.
Being flammable, I couldn’t mail or bring as luggage to Washington.
A year later a friend was moving to Seattle and we put the gel in one of his moving boxes.
I knew gel won’t last forever and it was already 3 years old so, another reason to get this done.
I sanded the previous gel down smooth and started masking off for the blues.
Being so small, it took as much time masking as the 20’ HST stripes!!
The medium blue had gelled in the unopened can and wasn’t usable. Thankfully, adding some dark blue to the light blue, I was able to match the medium blue. (If I’d thought this three years ago I could have saved $60 on a quart of gel. )
With my trusty $15 harbor freight spray gun and the tip drilled out to 2.0, the gel sprayed beautifully.
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While waiting on the blue gel to arrive, I got a call from a fisherman friend saying he had a friend heading to Seattle in a 150’ packer and would bring my two boats there for free!!
The bummer was that they had to be at the fish plant the next morning.
Made a stand for the mini and bundled up the Glastron GT-150 working into the evening.
Next morning they were loaded on the packer.
Once it got to our Washington shop, it got rolled into a corner and put on the back burner.
When I finished the HST rebuild, I had extra gel coat additive and top coat that has a shelf life . So out it came, unloaded the inside and started to finish it.
Ironically, the gel I ordered , arrived a week after the mini had left.
Being flammable, I couldn’t mail or bring as luggage to Washington.
A year later a friend was moving to Seattle and we put the gel in one of his moving boxes.
I knew gel won’t last forever and it was already 3 years old so, another reason to get this done.
I sanded the previous gel down smooth and started masking off for the blues.
Being so small, it took as much time masking as the 20’ HST stripes!!
The medium blue had gelled in the unopened can and wasn’t usable. Thankfully, adding some dark blue to the light blue, I was able to match the medium blue. (If I’d thought this three years ago I could have saved $60 on a quart of gel. )
With my trusty $15 harbor freight spray gun and the tip drilled out to 2.0, the gel sprayed beautifully.
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