Junior our 1950’s yachting monthly dinghy

Posted on April 19, 2021

Junior was donated to us as a wreak fit only for the fire, but we could see that MAS epoxy products could be used to save her and give her new life s a training dinghy for scouts etc

Junior arrived on a trailer that had seen better days like her.

Trailer failed to make it — The trailer that junior was on collapsed

First job was remove all screws and replace with dante dowels

never remove all the old paint until you are ready and able to protect the hull straight away

IMG 20170819 120129764 BURST001 — the small ding marks are the plastic nails we used along with the dante dowels

IMG 20170820 140246183 BURST001

Then we removed all the old paint, most fell off

All the paint removed and ready for taping and a cloth coat over the whole hull

screws taken out and replaced with mas flag epoxy workshop mix and dante dowels

IMG 20180415 124256 1 — Soft areas were cleaned out and repaired with MAS flag epoxy and workshop mix

All joints were taped using biax tape and low vis resin with slow hardeners

Junior with all the old screws removed dante pegs used now with reinforcement bandage applied using MAS low vis and slow hardener — re taping, this was done with a much wider and thicker tape than when she was originally built

The centre line back bone was strengthened with 4 layers of cloth and tape, you can see where the original screws have been replaced

junior laying on of reinforcement bandage over centre line using MAS low vis and slow hardener — initial lay up of cloth I was not stingy with the mas low vis epoxy

IMG 20180422 105541 BURST003 — The whole hull was then over covered with 300 grade bi ax cloth using MAS Low Vis resin and slow hardener

clothing completed on our 1950's junior dinghy — junior completely clothed

this is just the cloth and epoxy no other finish yet

starting to gentle sand the cured epoxy to give a key for the paint

first top coat

second top coat

Junior our 1950'sdinghy paint job 2 — the paint job on our 1950’s dinghy saved from fire by the use of MAS epoxies thispaint was later polished

This was the final paint job on junior — Final paint job

Trailer failed to make it

One response to “Junior our 1950’s yachting monthly dinghy”

David Fitter says:

April 20, 2021 at 7:46 am

Hi Pete,
Thank you for the photos, looks like a great project, beautifully finished. It is interesting to see the processes used.
David

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