Painted bulkhead problems?

[emergpa1]

So here is the final, finished interior. I painted the bulkheads as most of you guys already know. I finally finished all the trim, wiring and lights installation. We really like the oil lamp mounted on the aft side of the starboard forward bulkhead. The lamp mount is fully gimbaled so it stays upright. The lamp lifts out to carry by hand, and you can buy other gimbals to mount in different areas so that you can move the lamp to other areas if needed. It is a good alternate light source. The parafine lamp oil burns very clean. We have no soot at all even though we burned the lamp for over three hours friday night.

I was curious if any other oday owners had painted bulkheads. If so any problems? I was carfully to seal edges with epoxy. I used lowes porch paint and it seems as hard as a rock. resists scratches very well.

Lynn and I were lookiing at the schedule for putting her in the water, and with the holidays coming up, work schedule, parties and family visits we decided that we are going to have to wait until after first of the year to spash. Also my youngest son leaves for the airforce after christmas, and that is generating some special events. So this christmas season is going to be busier than most. So yesterday i bought a tarp from lowes and will keep her covered and dry. I can still fiddle with a few things, and then we can spash her early in the sping.
Keith

thanks

keith

 

[Shoaldrafter]

So here is the final, finished interior. I painted the bulkheads as most of you guys already know. I finally finished all the trim, wiring and lights installation. We really like the oil lamp mounted on the aft side of the starboard forward bulkhead. The lamp mount is fully gimbaled so it stays upright. The lamp lifts out to carry by hand, and you can buy other gimbals to mount in different areas so that you can move the lamp to other areas if needed. It is a good alternate light source. The parafine lamp oil burns very clean. We have no soot at all even though we burned the lamp for over three hours friday night.

I was curious if any other oday owners had painted bulkheads. If so any problems? I was carfully to seal edges with epoxy. I used lowes porch paint and it seems as hard as a rock. resists scratches very well.

Lynn and I were lookiing at the schedule for putting her in the water, and with the holidays coming up, work schedule, parties and family visits we decided that we are going to have to wait until after first of the year to spash. Also my youngest son leaves for the airforce after christmas, and that is generating some special events. So this christmas season is going to be busier than most. So yesterday i bought a tarp from lowes and will keep her covered and dry. I can still fiddle with a few things, and then we can spash her early in the sping.
Keith

thanks

keith

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Keith,

So where are the curtains? The rocking chair? The pot belly stove?

Addendum:

Wayne Stewart
stewpreach@cox.net
Sub: A BUCKET OF SHRIMP GREAT STORY AND TRUE

Many sailors know this story. I once told it in a sermon on CURRITUCK AV7. I'm not certain I ever told it again. A number of years earlier, during the Korean War, Eastern Air Lines returned a number of what the Navy called R5Ds, to the US Navy to reclaim them for cargo planes to support the war effort. As a young AT2 (Aviation Electronics Technicians second class) I did not know why this was so, but was told that Eastern had leased them from the Navy and were now returning them to be used in the war effort. I suspect the truth may have been a bit different from that, but it was a good story; it broke my heart to take those wonderful radios out of those beautiful passenger planes and install some haze grey boxes to take their places. I was in flight test at O & R at NAS Corpus Christi Texas and flew in most of those planes during flight test after retrograding them. Sometimes when my inspection was done I would sit there in the radioman's chair and imagine Eddie Rickenbacker telling me that story over and over about those days in the raft starving to death when the seagull saved their lives. I have always had a soft spot in my heart for seagulls. I am grateful for Nate and Sandra Dishman sharing it with me. It brings back lots of good memories of flight test, R5Ds, and the greatest seaplane tender ever. Now I have shared it again with a number of good friends. Wayne

--- On Fri, 3/27/09, Walter Williams wrote:

A BUCKET OF SHRIMP GREAT STORY AND TRUE

It happened every Friday evening, almost without fail, when the sun resembled a giant orange and was starting to dip into the blue ocean.

Old Ed came strolling along the beach to his favorite pier. Clutched in his bony hand was a bucket of shrimp. Ed walks out to the end of the pier, where it seems he almost has the world to himself. The glow of the sun is a golden bronze now.

Everybody's gone, except for a few joggers on the beach. Standing out on the end of the pier, Ed is alone with his thoughts...and his bucket of shrimp.

Before long, however, he is no longer alone. Up in the sky a thousand white dots come screeching and squawking, winging their way toward that lanky frame standing there on the end of the pier.

Before long, dozens of seagulls have enveloped him, their wings fluttering and flapping wildly. Ed stands there tossing shrimp to the hungry birds. As he does, if you listen closely, you can hear him say with a smile, 'Thank you. Thank you.'

In a few short minutes the bucket is empty. But Ed doesn't leave.

He stands there lost in thought, as though transported to another time and place. Invariably, one of the gulls lands on his sea-bleached, weather-beaten hat - an old military hat he's been wearing for years.

When he finally turns around and begins to walk back toward the beach, a few of the birds hop along the pier with him until he gets to the stairs, and then they, too, fly away. And old Ed quietly makes his way down to the end of the beach and on home.

If you were sitting there on the pier with your fishing line in the water, Ed might seem like 'a funny old duck,' as my dad used to say. Or, 'a guy that's a sandwich shy of a picnic,' as my kids might say. To onlookers, he's just another old codger, lost in his own weird world, feeding the seagulls with a bucket full of shrimp.

To the onlooker, rituals can look either very strange or very empty. They can seem altogether unimportant.....maybe even a lot of nonsense.

Old folks often do strange things, at least in the eyes of Boomers and Busters.

Most of them would probably write Old Ed off, down there in Florida. That's too bad. They'd do well to know him better.

His full name: Eddie Rickenbacker. He was a famous hero back in World War II. On one of his flying missions across the Pacific, he and his seven-member crew went down. Miraculously, all of the men survived, crawled out of their plane, and climbed into a life raft.

Captain Rickenbacker and his crew floated for days on the rough waters of the Pacific. They fought the sun. They fought sharks. Most of all, they fought hunger. By the eighth day their rations ran out. No food. No water. They were hundreds of miles from land and no one knew where they were.

They needed a miracle. That afternoon they had a simple devotional service and prayed for a miracle. They tried to nap. Eddie leaned back and pulled his military cap over his nose. Time dragged. All he could hear was the slap of the waves against the raft.

Suddenly, Eddie felt something land on the top of his cap. It was a seagull!

Old Ed would later describe how he sat perfectly still, planning his next move. With a flash of his hand and a squawk from the gull, he managed to grab it and wring its neck. He tore the feathers off, and he and his starving crew made a meal - a very slight meal for eight men - of it. Then they used the intestines for bait. With it, they caught fish, which gave them food and more bait......and the cycle continued. With that simple survival technique, they were able to endure the rigor of the sea until they were found and rescued (after 24 days at sea...).

Eddie Rickenbacker lived many years beyond that ordeal, but he never forgot the sacrifice of that first lifesaving seagull. And he never stopped saying, 'Thank you.' That's why almost every Friday night he would walk to the end of the pier with a bucket full of shrimp and a heart full of gratitude.

Reference: (Max Lucado, In The Eye of the Storm, pp.221, 225-226)

PS: Eddie was also an Ace in WW I and started Eastern Airlines.

 

[emergpa1]

good story ed,,Max lucado is a geat communicator. My father in law, now deceased, retired from eastern airlines. I wish i could talk to him about this.
thanks
keith

 

[Raftco]

Looking great Keith, you've done a really nice job with your re-build. Good luck with it, can't wait to see it floating.

 

[RichBone]

Beautiful. I like the painted bulkheads, teak trim and the oil lamp.

Rich

 

[adirondackbob]

Keith, you did a great job! Best of luck with her.

By the way, my dad worked for Eastern Airlines for many years after serving in the air force and he often tells the story of meeting Rickenbacker. I'll pass this story along to him.

Bob

 

[Joe11688]

So here is the final, finished interior. I painted the bulkheads as most of you guys already know. I finally finished all the trim, wiring and lights installation. We really like the oil lamp mounted on the aft side of the starboard forward bulkhead. The lamp mount is fully gimbaled so it stays upright. The lamp lifts out to carry by hand, and you can buy other gimbals to mount in different areas so that you can move the lamp to other areas if needed. It is a good alternate light source. The parafine lamp oil burns very clean. We have no soot at all even though we burned the lamp for over three hours friday night.

I was curious if any other oday owners had painted bulkheads. If so any problems? I was carfully to seal edges with epoxy. I used lowes porch paint and it seems as hard as a rock. resists scratches very well.

Lynn and I were lookiing at the schedule for putting her in the water, and with the holidays coming up, work schedule, parties and family visits we decided that we are going to have to wait until after first of the year to spash. Also my youngest son leaves for the airforce after christmas, and that is generating some special events. So this christmas season is going to be busier than most. So yesterday i bought a tarp from lowes and will keep her covered and dry. I can still fiddle with a few things, and then we can spash her early in the sping.
Keith

thanks

keith

I think you did an excellent job Keith. I like the contrast between the white and the wood trim moldings. The white has a cheery effect in the cabin. I notice that you have a picture hanging on the bulkhead. I like that too. I have two pictures and one framed quote from the opening pages of Herman Melville's book "Moby Dick," attached to the carpet headliner with Velcro, in my boat's cabin. If you don't have the time right now to use your boat, do what I do. Get yourself a 9' kayak and use that in the off season and when you do splash the big boat, tow the kayak behind it and use it for exploring your favorite coves. Penny and I went kayaking yesterday on the river and had a blast, beach combing. Billy Joel's 67' cruiser, "Vendetta" is being stored in that marina across the river in this picture. Penny is always eager to get her picture taken, but I always have a tough time trying to get her to smile for the picture.
Joe

 

[emergpa1]

I think you did an excellent job Keith. I like the contrast between the white and the wood trim moldings. The white has a cheery effect in the cabin. I notice that you have a picture hanging on the bulkhead. I like that too. I have two pictures and one framed quote from the opening pages of Herman Melville's book "Moby Dick," attached to the carpet headliner with Velcro, in my boat's cabin. If you don't have the time right now to use your boat, do what I do. Get yourself a 9' kayak and use that in the off season and when you do splash the big boat, tow the kayak behind it and use it for exploring your favorite coves. Penny and I went kayaking yesterday on the river and had a blast, beach combing. Billy Joel's 67' cruiser, "Vendetta" is being stored in that marina across the river in this picture. Penny is always eager to get her picture taken, but I always have a tough time trying to get her to smile for the picture.


Joe

Thanks for the positive comments. i couldn't have gotten this far without all the help from this forum
I am sure i can see a hint of a smile playing around the corners of penny's mouth!
I am going to do my version of kayaking: some mountain biking. we have a great bike area just a few minutes ride from my house. My bike is looking a bit forlorn, she actually has the bimini cover hanging off her handlebars! She may throw me on some trail out of spite.

 

[Joe11688]

Thanks for the positive comments. i couldn't have gotten this far without all the help from this forum
I am sure i can see a hint of a smile playing around the corners of penny's mouth!
I am going to do my version of kayaking: some mountain biking. we have a great bike area just a few minutes ride from my house. My bike is looking a bit forlorn, she actually has the bimini cover hanging off her handlebars! She may throw me on some trail out of spite.

I used to do a lot of biking years ago, taking long rides, but I don't think that my legs can take it anymore on account of I'm a "Geezer" don't 'sha know. I had a nice Motobecane 12 speed street bike that was fast and light. Biking the trails sounds like fun and it's probably a lot safer than the streets. I've got a mountain bike in my yard that belongs to my oldest boy. Maybe I'll clean it up and use it. Penny can always run along as I ride through the trails up here.

 

[Larry14187]

Geeze, I think the painted bulkhead looks terrible. Why didn't you use marine grade teak plywood?(or something similiar) That's what i used and the results are spectaculiar. I know its costly but it stays true to the "natural Look" of the boat. My intent is not to deminish all your hard work you put into that painted BH...it kinda looks like a cheap hotel room...

 

[emergpa1]

Geeze, I think the painted bulkhead looks terrible. Why didn't you use marine grade teak plywood?(or something similiar) That's what i used and the results are spectaculiar. I know its costly but it stays true to the "natural Look" of the boat. My intent is not to deminish all your hard work you put into that painted BH...it kinda looks like a cheap hotel room...

yeah it was a hard decision, i had actually bought cherry i was going to seal and stain, but realized that by sealing it i couldn't stain it, at least not in the way i understood it, so part of the decision was necessity. I guess I will find out come resale, but that is not in the immediate future (or distant for that matter)
keith

 

[Shoaldrafter]

yeah it was a hard decision, i had actually bought cherry i was going to seal and stain, but realized that by sealing it i couldn't stain it, at least not in the way i understood it, so part of the decision was necessity. I guess I will find out come resale, but that is not in the immediate future (or distant for that matter)
keith

Keith,

Your painted bulkheads look fine. And are easier to keep clean. The O'Day 26 is not a wooden boat so you are not compelled to have all wood bulkheads. There is freedom here unlike the compulsion in your favorite bill.

Ed K
26

 

[emergpa1]

I think so too, thanks ed,
.....and long may she wave!
keith

 

[Solitude25]

Keith, I hope you check this thread even though I'm replying so late. Not only do your bulkheads (and the rest of the boat) look great, you REALLY helped me out. I have painted the cabinets and countertops with a Rustoleum product made for formica...no priming or sanding and the results are very nice. You helped me decide to go ahead with the bulkheads (wanted to to do it, just wasn't sure what it would look like), so thank you. i don't like the woodgrain formica that is there, I'm not much of a carpenter, and I think Don Casey wrote it best....if you don't think genuine materials make a difference, try asking your bride to walk down the aisle with silk flowers! You created a nice classic look.

And yes, long may she wave....

 

[emergpa1]

Keith, I hope you check this thread even though I'm replying so late. Not only do your bulkheads (and the rest of the boat) look great, you REALLY helped me out. I have painted the cabinets and countertops with a Rustoleum product made for formica...no priming or sanding and the results are very nice. You helped me decide to go ahead with the bulkheads (wanted to to do it, just wasn't sure what it would look like), so thank you. i don't like the woodgrain formica that is there, I'm not much of a carpenter, and I think Don Casey wrote it best....if you don't think genuine materials make a difference, try asking your bride to walk down the aisle with silk flowers! You created a nice classic look.

And yes, long may she wave....

Thanks Solitude. I'm glad I could be a help. The paint i used on the bulkheads and for the couinter top of the forward sink, is still holding up great, hard as a rock.Very difficult even to scratch. I used something called "porch paint" from lowes. Great stuff.
I remember when i first stumbled onto this forum and began my first attempts at asking questions. It was prompted by the cracks and soft area around my mast base. I went online and did a google search and found this forum. What a help. There is NO WAY I could have fixed up my boat just using don casey (as good as he is) or other books. The information and encouragement are priceless!!!!!!
I think my first thread was called "sea trek: trouble with tabernacles" or something like that. I noticed that alot of the pictures we posted on those old threads are no longer there. I guess it takes up too much space to store all those pics. Too bad, they would really have been helpful.
Keith