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[loinerlad]

This is the boat which I intend to build a Vosper RTTL out of, she is 47" in length and was bought for a tenner! 
overall she is very solid but after removing all of the old paint the hull is a bit worn and I think it was the paint that was keeping it all together! 
I have decided to re-skin over it but was wondering if anybody has any suggestions on the best way to do this, would it be best to use very thin wood or would it be possible to maybe fibreglass around it???

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers
Chris

[Tug---Kenny]

It doesn't look too bad. I would be tempted to try P38 filler and and smooth it all over, then add a coat or two of filler spray and lightly rub down. Finish off with Red Oxide primer and sand smooth and you should have a nice looking hull.

regards

ken

[bluebird]

Hi there

The hull looks as though it may be from the Percassa class stables in the beginning of its life and  by the photographs it looks in pretty good nick.  If you want to skin it; you have a couple of options
You could coat it with about 3 – 4 coats of Zepoxy finishing resin which would seal the hull and if you rub it down between coats, it will give you an excellent surface to paint on.   Or, if the plywood is a little bit ‘iffy’ in places, you could go for a coating of polyester resin on the skin of the hull followed by a layer of finishing tissue matting/very fine with a couple of coats of pure polyester resin over the top of that and this could be rubbed down.     Dont make the mistake though of using the Halfords supplied tissue matting with the epoxy resin – cos the bonding agent in the tissue matt is not activated by the epoxy resin it is only activated by polyester resin.  

If you want any further details on the RTT launches = do a search of this forum and you will come up with the build I did and several others.

Aye
john

[loinerlad]

Thanks Ken and John, I have used filler primer before and it was good but maybe as you both say a coating skin of filler or resin rather then wood or fibreglassing it would be a lot easier and less time consuming.
although there is a split down the middle of the hull which concerns me, do you reckon a suitable coating i.e resin or p38 would also solve this problem and bond it back together or would I need to repair this first?

Chris

[loinerlad]

Oh and I thought the hull looked like a perkasa but the RTTL looks very similar to this so I thought I would get away with it 

[Tug---Kenny]

It's best to deal with splits on the inside surfaces. You can then use fibreglass and matting without covering the whole boat.
P38 is not a good solution alone as it can crack if pulled apart.

ken