Boat Restoration Story (with pix in photo gallery)

fatlazyless · 11-06-2005, 10:47 AM

Losing weight is lke gaining horsepower. Makes sense to me. Anyway, I'm in the middle of repainting a twenty year old 12' C&L Echo sailboat. First coat of bottom paint went on yesterday. It was a $7.70 quart of X-O Rust light grey primer. What a day for painting, it was, yesterday. And today, hopefully, it will get a 1st coat of XO Rust light blue. Methinks the 2nd coat of light blue will be next April. Would post a photo except I don't have a computer and haven't figured out how to post photos w/ my msn-tv+

The Ash Hardware store in Ashland NH is absoluely the best hardware store around due to it's incredible organization and neatness, depth of inventory, reasonable prices, plus it's a family business. It is about one mile off exit 26, in between the original Common Man restaurant and Bob's Shurfine super market in beatifull downtown Ashland and worth the short trip. From hot tub chemicals to paint to Amsoil four-stroke outboard oil to fishing to lawn & garden to plumbing to hardware & stainless steel fasteners to a lot of other stuff like glass window and screen repair. And, the prices are very decent and it's on the way to the Plymouth Super Wal-Mart from Moultonboro-Centre Harbor-Meredith.

11-06-2005, 10:47 AM	#17
fatlazyless Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 8,856 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 303 Thanked 1,039 Times in 758 Posts	Losing weight is lke gaining horsepower. Makes sense to me. Anyway, I'm in the middle of repainting a twenty year old 12' C&L Echo sailboat. First coat of bottom paint went on yesterday. It was a $7.70 quart of X-O Rust light grey primer. What a day for painting, it was, yesterday. And today, hopefully, it will get a 1st coat of XO Rust light blue. Methinks the 2nd coat of light blue will be next April. Would post a photo except I don't have a computer and haven't figured out how to post photos w/ my msn-tv+ The Ash Hardware store in Ashland NH is absoluely the best hardware store around due to it's incredible organization and neatness, depth of inventory, reasonable prices, plus it's a family business. It is about one mile off exit 26, in between the original Common Man restaurant and Bob's Shurfine super market in beatifull downtown Ashland and worth the short trip. From hot tub chemicals to paint to Amsoil four-stroke outboard oil to fishing to lawn & garden to plumbing to hardware & stainless steel fasteners to a lot of other stuff like glass window and screen repair. And, the prices are very decent and it's on the way to the Plymouth Super Wal-Mart from Moultonboro-Centre Harbor-Meredith.