Art we can all appreciate!

[John Schuchert]

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Finally decided to get serious about the underside of the boat! There
were some dis-laminated spots on the bottom, so I went out and got some
vinyl ester resin and some Kevlar and got the bottom back to new. Let
it sit for two weeks with some heat lamps, and then did an epoxy barrier
coat by interlux. We did hard bottom paint this time, last year we ran
out of ablative before the end of the season and were scratching off
shells. We also wet sanded it trying to pick up a little extra speed.
The wet sanding discolored the paint a little while it was dry, but we
went under and it's all uniform now. I took a shot with the underwater
camera and that's the second picture up above. After all that work,
thought we'd have some fun, and I bought some red bottom paint to go
over the blue and we decided to make some Dorado chasing Bonita! I'm
not very artistic, so I let Mike man the brush! Hopefully it'll catch
the eye of quite a few big ones!!!

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John Schuchert