The interior on this Sportsman has been updated some years ago and the bottom of the boat was painted with authentic Chris-Craft paint and primer but was never caulked so it will need some attention. You will love the way she sounds motoring through the water. With the original Hercules engine that has very few hours on it since it was worked on by the guys at Chris-Craft in Algonac Mi. This beautifully maintained Sportsman is about as close to original as it gets and is the perfect start to your next family heirloom.
not to get a couple more seasons out of it but to carry it on for generations to come. You build a relationship with a wooden boat. For many who enjoy getting their hands dirty, the do-it-yourself types. The sea trials we hoped to run this fall will likely wait until the ice leaves Lake Champlain next spring.Stock #190554 Reason for selling is "Too many projects".ĪNY and ALL offers will be put in front of our seller! Submit your offer today! A great classic boat with beautiful woodwork throughout! Low hours and ready for its new owner today! For many of us, owning an antique boat is a way to hold on to something from our past. We are racing against the onslaught of winter, and it looks like winter will win. Once we have the ceilings installed, her completely rebuilt Chrysler Crown engine will be installed, followed by her floor panels, which have been updated with new Nautolex in natural. She was just as “crusty” below the waterline, but collecting and weighing those “leavings” proved impossible. If you search back through the clips we’ve posted to this challenge, you will see the same boat being stripped of what ended up being 95 pounds of paint from the topsides alone. Since she is a SMB-owned boat, she’s become our test vessel for purposes of bright work.
Using Captain’s grows out of conversations with several well-respected Lyman owners whose judgement I respect. We have four coats of Captain’s Varnish Ultra Clear 2067 on the transom and two on the decks and covering boards as I type. She then received three coats of Pettit Tie Coat Primer, followed by three of Sandusky Lyman Tan Antifouling paint. The bottom was scraped completely clean, before 3M 5200 was applied to seal every seam. (We roll and tip this paint, and have applied three coats over three of the primer.) We have tested it on half a dozen topsides by now, and will standardize on this paint, one which trumps Brightside by every criterion, but especially in terms of gloss and a curing process that leads to a virtual complete absence of brush marks. Wet Edge is positioned to challenge Interlux Brightside. We could not be more pleased with the new-to-the-markiet paint line from Jamestown Distributiors’. The lapstrake topsides and boot stripe have received their final coat of Totalboat Wet Edge polyurethane paint.
Every bit of stripping and deconstuction is behind us. We are at the most enjoyable point in each of our restoration projects.
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