Rick

scott

I took the advice of a previous poster here. I took a six inch foam roller and rolled over the Proud portion of the scroll. Worked Great!,...it was a 10 minute job. I used One Shot Gold Sign lettering paint bought off EBay.

I wonder why your boat has it worked right into the fiberglass and others like mine have removable boards screwed to the hull.

I like that PHD (piled higher deeper).

I have a friend that works with a bunch of PHD's at the university and that seems to describe most of them to a T also. He is constantly working to keep them from killing themselves or someone else on their marine science projects. He is the Dive Safety Officer for the University and says that they know a lot about their very narrow speciality within their field. Therefore they think they know everything about everything and try to tell him how to do his job. He has almost quit over safety issues he is responsible for 3 or 4 times because they wouldn't follow regulations much less common sense. So far that is his big hold on them I think and it will end up having him lose his job eventually. He just threatens in the middle of the project to walk off because he won't be responsible for it anymore if they don't follow safety precautions. This doesn't even count the number of times he has tried to talk them into doing stuff better ways in how to install and mount multi thousand dollar equipment under water in different environments such as tidal, ocean, marsh etc... That stuff he ends up doing their way after getting it in writing so he can be protected when the equipment is ripped away and disapears because it wasn't properly secured for the environment. Was just talking to him the other day and he was venting about it. Funny thing is though he doesn't have a masters or doctorate in the subject he does have a bachelors in it from that same university as well as 30 years of experience as a diver and about 20 years as a dive instructor. He has made his living diving for that 30 years and they don't listen. lol he certified some of them in how to dive. Regrets is bitterly some days (certifying them that is).

I actually know him and a lot of the professors as I went to school with him and have a minor in marine science from their also. 20% of them are stand up good and reasonable people.. the other 80% are kinda scary.

Straight to the facts... I misused terminology last night, my bad.

My Trailboards are molded into the hull, they are not an attachment, from inside the chain locker forward of the V-berth, I can see the back side of them, and make out the details.  ( I wish they were removable, as it it would make life a lot easier to refinish them).

The Nameboard on the Transom is removeable, and that is what I've been considering reproducing out of teak.  My Nameboard is a flimsy POS.....  you can push on the center of it with one finger, and just about crack it.  If is end up reusing it, I'll be reinforcing it on the backside.

Pictures at the moment are not possible, as I'm 300 miles away.... and snowed in [Image Can Not Be Found]

What I was told were "Knights Boards" are in fact, Trailboards on each side of the bow.  An old marina goat told me they were called Knights Boards, when in fact, I bet he had no clue what they were called, but because he coughed up a name for them, to a starry  eyed young sailor... he appeared to be an authority on the subject ( granted that was 1968 or so ), I've noticed a number of Marina Sailors have PHDs ( Piled Higher & Deeper) in all things aquatic.  [Image Can Not Be Found]

scott

Mine are not attachments, they are molded into the hull,  I can stick my head in the chain locker, and clearly make out the inverted scroll work....

The Trailboard is an attachment though.... I've been considering removing it, and reproducing it in teak.

That would be a huge project, and I'm not sure I have the skills required to do that, so more than likely, it will just get refinished, and reinstalled. [Image Can Not Be Found]

The painting part started out slow. First I painted the entire board with blue. I used some sort of marine paint, but I don't remember which one. Probably picked it up at WM. A few days later I started applying the gold paint. When I started I was using a small, arts and crafts type brush but this was going very slowly and didn't look all that great. I thought back to my days doing plastic model airplanes and I remembered that when you are painting the proud parts of a molded piece, the easiest way to do that was use a stamp type technique. So I got a fine sponge, painted the gold paint on the sponge and then just tipped the sponge on the parts that were sticking up. I still needed the small brush for some details, but with the sponge, the process went very fast.

Jason

DE32 Bodhran