After having masked and taped her off yesterday, we began removing GMB’s many layers of varnish today.
Replacing failed wood bungs and resetting fasteners is next, followed by staining and varnishing.
Green Mountain Buoy Stripping Begins
1958 Cadillac Seville – Interlux Perfection Plus Two Coats
We are nearing completion of a thorough preservation of this early example of cold-molded plywood hull technolong. The 1955 Cadillac Seville sports double cockpits, complete with double windshields. Leveraging a deal they made with GM at the time, she also is adorned with gleaming Caddy chrome trim and the Caddy crown crest. Here we have just finished applying the second of an eventual seven coats of Interlux Perfection Plus varnish.
How to Install & Remove Tee Nee Trailer Rollers & Pins
Here is the second part of this Tee Nee roller and roller pin how to video. You will see and be walked through how we insert the pin-roller combination into the trailer’s tongue, and then how we remove the pins and their rollers from the trailer.
Then we will offer you our solution to the rusted, corroded pin problem that all Tee Nee owners and preservation shops face: the Snake Mountain Boatworks stainless steel Tee Nee roller pin. Other than being stainless instead of mild steel, these pins are exact copies of their original counterparts. They are available on eBay at $10 each, packaged in groups of 6 or 7 pins, plus $6.00 shipping within the lower 48 states of the U.S.
1958 Cadillac Seville – Rub Rail Steam Bending
The forward section of the port rubrail just could not be saved. Here you will view how the hull itself can serve as the pattern for steam bending a replacement. Once cured, the blank was shaped by hand to fit the ever-changing radius, one that is longer at the top than at the bottom of the rub rail.