I have spent the morning sanding. Having arrived home from work at 03:00 this morning I had the day to sleep at home. By mid morning I had had enough of lying around and thought 'BOAT!'
I moved to a nicer neighbourhood a couple of years ago. Quiet leafy streets, some retired folk... and today a man with a random orbital sander :twisted:.
No wonder Mick's resorted to hand sanding. I have tested my ROS and yes, the motor can take continuous use. The flat bottom of a pirogue makes it like sanding a wooden drum. If you manage to hit a sweet spot the whole thing starts resonating. Fortunately it has been really windy today so any dust is now heading towards France. Two and a half hours I sanded for, then found that I couldn't stand up straight
Now I have done my epoxy saturation coat and guess what. The flies have come out. Haven't seen a fly all spring and now they turn up.
Mind you the squirrel was standing 6" from the hull inspecting it when I scared him off. You couldn't just brush in a squirrel... you'd have to sand that off :lol:
I moved to a nicer neighbourhood a couple of years ago. Quiet leafy streets, some retired folk... and today a man with a random orbital sander :twisted:.
No wonder Mick's resorted to hand sanding. I have tested my ROS and yes, the motor can take continuous use. The flat bottom of a pirogue makes it like sanding a wooden drum. If you manage to hit a sweet spot the whole thing starts resonating. Fortunately it has been really windy today so any dust is now heading towards France. Two and a half hours I sanded for, then found that I couldn't stand up straight
Now I have done my epoxy saturation coat and guess what. The flies have come out. Haven't seen a fly all spring and now they turn up.
I suspect that there will be fly legs entombed in my boat forever."Oh look fresh epoxy. Arghh I'm stuck. Noooo he's swiping me with the brush. Aaaarrrrrghhhh all my legs have come off!"
Mind you the squirrel was standing 6" from the hull inspecting it when I scared him off. You couldn't just brush in a squirrel... you'd have to sand that off :lol: