Maintenance
Painting the Hull
Rudder Removal
Updated 06/29/99
Submitted by Missie Coley of the Victoria 18 Forum
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Missie and her husband are in the process repainting a Victoria 18 that they recently purchased. They bought the boat from a lady who got it in her divorce settlement. They found the boat needed painting, and were missing some pretty odd parts like sails, tiller handle, mast pins, and travelers. They are in the process of restoring her, and they are documenting their work on the forum as a means to help others in the forum with similar projects.

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From: MISSIEC May-28 7:50 pm
#94.7, in reply to 94.6

U.P.S. just delivered the tanbark sails. (National Sail Supply). They look just GREAT! It took a little longer (3 weeks) than the sailmaker said it would, but it appears to have been worth it. We got six or seven different quotes and the price was also the best that we found.
 
The boat is definately a construction project at the minute.
 
Just about everything has been removed off the deck and in doing so we found where some of the water in the cabin was coming from. We had leaks around screw holes around the bow pulpit and cleats.
 
It's amazing what some cleaning, sanding and oil will do for 20 year old teak!
 
The teak project is finished and ready for re-assembly.
 
Tomorrow I will begin the painting process by priming her.
 
We decided on Interlux Briteside Polyurethane in Hatteras Off-White and Rustic Red. It should look nice with the tanbark. The paint that was on their was just full of little chicken pox looking holes, but only on the boot stripe. I've filled and sanded for a solid day and hope that they are gone for good.
 
The boat is laying on her side in the backyard. (SEE the story here). Since this is a do it yourself project being done by a female, simplicity is a plus. I'm doing one side, then calling in the uncles and getting them to help turn her on her other side so I can paint it.
 
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From: MISSIEC May-29 10:04 pm
#94.10, in reply to 94.9

I got a lot accomplished today.

Side one is totally sanded, patched and has the first coat of primer on it. Tomorrow morning, weather permitting, I will sand again and apply the 2nd (and hopefully last) coat of primer. The primer had excellent coverage, after just one coat you can't see any of the black and just the red boot stripe is showing through.
We took the rudder out today because the bottom bolt was sheared off. It came off just exactly like Jerry Wrenn's page said it would.
 
We just used a little different approach because our boat is off the trailer for painting. We got the rudder out by sliding it out horizontally. Don't laugh--we had the boat laying on it's side, with the keel balanced on 2 five gallon buckets and it worked just great.
 
The entire removal process took about 10 minutes. My uncle and I lifted the keel with a lever and Chuck slid the buckets underneath. We had the keel about 24" off the ground.
 
We haven't put the rudder back on yet, because we need to find a replacement pin, so tomorrow I'll take the digital camera out and take some pictures. It's actually a pretty simple assembly.
 
From: MISSIEC Jun-27 10:53 pm
To: ALL
#94.19, in reply to 94.18 prev 19 of 19

 
 

Hi,
Side one is complete! I'm attaching a picture so you guys can see the difference some paint makes. It's really exciting seeing how dramatic the change is. We have the new windows to install. It cost $90. to have two new trapezoid windows cut out of 1/4" bronze plexiglass and have the screw holes drilled. I took in one of the old windows for a pattern. I have tried to drill plexiglass before and made a mess of it so I decided to pay the $2.00 per hole charge and let the pro's do it. Today at West Marine we bought all new rope (New England Rope Sta-Set) we are using the sta-set for everything except the hand held lines and are checking on ordering Regatta Braid for the genoa and main sheets. Anyone have any comments on Regatta braid? I'm also attaching a picture of what the rudder assembly looks like with the rudder removed. Side two is totally primed and sanded now, so hopefully the painting will be complete by the end of next weekend. We are also going to paint the deck the same color as above the waterline (Hatteras Off-White) and add Interlux non-skid on the deck surfaces.
 
 
 
I'm also attaching a not so great picture of the rudder assembly with the rudder removed. I think I might have compressed it too much when I uploaded it from the digital camera. Hopefully you guys can tell a little something from it. I promise my paint is not all streaked! I'm not sure why the image transferred like that. Any ideas Donald?
Hope everyone had a great weekend! Hopefully it won't be much longer before we've got our girl in the water.
Missie


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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