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  1. mickyryan

    Astroglass 1989 full rebuild

    Found original brochure for boat and was able to get the gelcoat flake colors off that , my plan is to light sand the clear and hopefully I can respray a thick clear gel on it, I had to rebuild transom area so that will get a base color then flake then clear thick enough to make it easier to...
  2. mickyryan

    Astroglass 1989 full rebuild

    Yeah I haven't touched it because rain and heat I am hoping to get a lil time in today before storms start ..... I got all my supply's in for re spraying the flake and itching to get on that!
  3. mickyryan

    Astroglass 1989 full rebuild

    Haven't got out there yet I got to wait for sun to get on west side of house lol
  4. mickyryan

    Astroglass 1989 full rebuild

    im going to try to get some pics today of progress atm trying to match up metal flakes and figure that out , really wanna get it as close to original as i can
  5. mickyryan

    Astroglass 1989 full rebuild

    Need to figure out this metalflake no clue what it is but have a lil repair to do and have no clue the color flake, it's black with like silver flake and then silver with silver flake , wish I could find paint scheme they used
  6. mickyryan

    Astroglass 1989 full rebuild

    All screwed back together and working on transom skin looked like been fired on with buckshot so many transom holes where guess po had transducers ran down it
  7. mickyryan

    Astroglass 1989 full rebuild

    Got it recapped last night now to screw it all back together
  8. mickyryan

    Astroglass 1989 full rebuild

    Sorry man haven't had phone out there with me because of passing showers, last thing she said if that phone gets ruined you getting burners from here on out lol
  9. mickyryan

    Astroglass 1989 full rebuild

    Got floor done now just a few additional pieces and I'll be ready to recap, been working mostly at night because of weather
  10. mickyryan

    Sea Dek or the equivalent

    Careful squirrels like it for making nests. . ask me how I know :)
  11. mickyryan

    Painted Metal Flake Boot Stripe Repair

    Odd I have been researching this for about 2 weeks what I gleened was use clear gelcoat put flakes in that after shooting color do flakes then do a couple coats of clear over that and supposedly you will have many years of use, I have not done this myself yet , not to that step but will be soon :)
  12. mickyryan

    Inboard/ I/O Engine Hoist Ideas?

    I always build wood gantrys and use harbor freight winches
  13. mickyryan

    Astroglass 1989 full rebuild

    All this rain Killin me! All the wood is cut and sitting in boat with plastic keeping it dry , hoping these storms break so I can start glassing
  14. mickyryan

    Astroglass 1989 full rebuild

    Grinding about done all the woods cut I glued the 3 pieces together for t transom just cleaning up some of the mess not really much to take pics of yet
  15. mickyryan

    1961 Lonestar Flamingo - SPLASHED w/Pics

    Hope ya had a good father's day :)
  16. mickyryan

    Astroglass 1989 full rebuild

    Rain got me today but I'm about 90 %on hull clean out, depending on what goes on for father's day I'll be back on it :) happy father's day to all the dad's out there!
  17. mickyryan

    Astroglass 1989 full rebuild

    Got half to hull today and a lil more then a quarter of other side done should have hull clean tomorrow morning if rain holds out long enough
  18. mickyryan

    Grady transom repair

    I used arjay6011 only thing I did do was added chopped strands to it just so it had fibers like seacast, never had any issues and if the **** hadn't got so expensive I'd use it again, that said on my rebuild I'm going back all wood just because built wrong the wood lasted 30 years , I'll be...
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    Astroglass 1989 full rebuild

    On the foam removal phase the termites took care of most of the wood :)
  20. mickyryan

    1962 Chris Craft Holiday 20’ bucket list resto

    Man I'd love to do a wood boat but even after I have rid myself from those bees the scars of them are still too fresh lol
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