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Now that I\u2019m home more, I\u2019ve been working on the boat again. I have almost finished filling the hull and fairing it. I have decided to keep the almost clear appearance of the epoxy on the wood. I will finish it with some sort of UV blocking clear bottom coat. Right now, I\u2019m trying to accumulate enough lead to cast the ballast. I need about 650 pounds. So far, I\u2019ve managed to acquire some from a local tire shop but unfortunately, it is very messy and the waste is about 50%. There are so many tire weights that are not lead, that it takes forever to process. I have gotten about 85 pounds from two 5-gallon buckets. I was really hoping to not have to buy too much but it seems to be really hard to come by these days. I think the fear of lead has made it much harder to buy. I contacted a couple of recycling places in town and only one would sell me some, \u201cIf they had any.\u201d The other very well-known recycling place in Casper informed me, in a very rude tone of voice, that they don\u2019t sell lead. I guess they don\u2019t really recycle. They must just accumulate raw material for China. I definitely won\u2019t be taking anything to them again. In my opinion, the purpose of a recycling company is to collect material that one person has and doesn\u2019t need and sell it to someone who does need it. I guess I was wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I made three models of the pieces of ballast I\u2019m going to cast. On one of the pictures you can see it in place, where they will go when cast. I wanted to break it up so they would be easier to handle. I\u2019m going to mount them and encapsulate them before turning the boat over. Unlike some builds, I don\u2019t want the ballast exposed. I think it will make it cleaner and look better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now that I\u2019m home more, I\u2019ve been working on the boat again. I have almost finished filling the hull and fairing it. I have decided to keep the almost clear appearance of the epoxy on the wood. I will finish it with some sort of UV blocking clear bottom coat. Right now, I\u2019m trying to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4,3],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mea","tag-iain-oughtred-design","tag-wee-seal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/climbingfrog.com\/Sailingfrog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/climbingfrog.com\/Sailingfrog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/climbingfrog.com\/Sailingfrog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climbingfrog.com\/Sailingfrog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climbingfrog.com\/Sailingfrog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/climbingfrog.com\/Sailingfrog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":360,"href":"https:\/\/climbingfrog.com\/Sailingfrog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/climbingfrog.com\/Sailingfrog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climbingfrog.com\/Sailingfrog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climbingfrog.com\/Sailingfrog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}