1969 Chris Craft Roamer 46 Refit: ICA Basecoat on Moldings and the Aft Stateroom Transom Panel

I’ve been making moldings for the V-berth and fitting a mahogany panel for the aft stateroom transom. Time to varnish them.

First, sand with 120 then 240 Mirka Abranet

Aft stateroom transom panel is ready for shiny

More bits and pieces

I may have prepped too many pieces of mahogany

The problem will be trying to find places to put each piece after I brush on the ICA base coat urethane clear.

Mahogany porn

That’s pretty stuff

First three coats are done

Next day, sand with 320 grit Abranet and repeat

Ready to lay on the next three coats

Six base coats later, the moldings are ready to install

Bare plywood edges need to be covered

Sand the contact area rough to get it ready for epoxy

Wet out the molding contact areas with epoxy and get ready to install

Wood flour-thickened epoxy makes for strong glue

Lay on a heavy coating of epoxy glue

Good squeeze-out means a strong joint

Once all of the pieces are installed, I immediately clean up the squeezed out glue with a plastic squeegee followed by an alcohol-soaked rag.

Push sticks, screw clamps…whatever it takes

As you know, the V-berth headliner is done now. These pix were taken while the headliner was being installed, before the installer showed up or after he went home for the day. Anyway, with a bunch of sticky epoxy curing in the V-berth, I went home, too.

Next up in our 1969 Chris Craft Roamer 46 Refit: Installing the Aft Stateroom Transom Panel