[Rhodes22-list] Bottom Paint

[Bill Effros]

Slim,

I use essentially the same technique.  The biggest single difference is 
that I don't use the jackstands available from West Marine.  You can get 
other jackstands that are open at the bottom of the tube.  If you put a 
bottle jack below the screw, you can effortlessly jack up the boat.  
Wind the collar back down to the sleeve to hold the screw in place.

I use three or four of these jackstands.  One at the bow with a "V" top.

I block the boat under the keel.  This makes for a shorter wooden block 
stack regardless of how high the boat is raised from the trailer.

With four jacks, and a little forethought, it is possible, and not 
terribly difficult, to slide the trailer out from under the boat.  This 
involves moving stacks and jacks around the axles.  The boat is really 
easy to paint when the trailer isn't under it.  It's easy to get to the 
spots where the jackstands were after lowering the boat onto the trailer.

For safety reasons I'm more comfortable with the trailer under the 
boat.  However, in our boatyard most sailboats are left on jacks only, 
six months of the year.  Most of the boats are substantially larger than 
ours.

Also, chaining the jacks together is highly recommended.

I prefer jacks that go straight up and down to angled jacks.  The stern 
of the R-22 is uncommonly flat for a sailboat, and lends itself to being 
jacked straight up.  The jacks with open tubes can be stacked for winter 
storage.

Bill Effros

Slim wrote:
> Art,
>
> Sorry, I forgot to answer the rest of your questions.  I bought the stands
> at West Marine after I did the job once without them when I stacked up a
> bunch of cinder blocks and decided that was too much of a PITA.  The stands
> work great and worth every penny IMO.  The bow is jacked up by the trailer
> tongue jack and then timbers put under the keel and then the trailer lowered
> down.  I painted with a standard 9" roller but brushed around the details on
> the stern.  Brush the edges/details first then roll.  One gallon, two coats.
> The photos turned out somewhat pixilated--my boot stripe isn't checkerboard
> like it looks--they're stripes.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Slim
>
> On 2/15/07 12:30 AM, "Slim" <stevenalm at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> Art,
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>> Slim
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