Rather than burden the viewer with endless photographs of sandpaper, sanding boards, dust, dust masks, itchy sleeves and bulging shoulder muscles, I have limited the number of recent posts. Sanding and prepping for the top side painting of a boat is not very exciting nor much fun. However, if you are really short on entertainment options, here are a few pictures of some of the tools with a brief description of some of the fairing methods that seem to be working for me.
After mixing my own bulk fairing compound using epoxy resin and glass micro balloons, and bringing all of the boat surfaces up to grade, I've switched over to a product called Quick fair made by Sysem Three. It's a thixotropic fairing compound that is formulated under vacuum and when mixed, it is easily spread over the hull surface in such a was as to minimize any further rough sanding. The stuff is insanely expensive but in this application, it is literally saving me a few days of my life that could otherwise be better spent sailing with my friends or sitting with my feet in the sand under a palm tree.
Quick Fair
It mixes 2 : 1 so I just marked two areas out on my mixing board with a sharpy pen and then I scoop the stuff out, smooth it out over the areas in roughly the same thickness and call it good to mix.
I then use various steel blade "sheet rock" spreaders to smooth it out on the hull. Since I've been using super low grit sand paper on long boards ( sometimes 20 grit), this filler eliminates these sand marks and will only require a quick go over with the Festool RO150 DA sander
here's a pile of the tools that I have been using to fair the hulls and deck
forward port side hull right before it runs you over.
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