Glassing The Fishing Frenzy !!!

[Capt.Troy Crane]

My friend Capt. Greg, put the "Frenzy" in the shed on Monday to glass the hull. It is a 1977 Billy Holton Custom Carolina that has seen some ocean time and is ready for some tlc.

The bottom was glassed along with the rear of the boat from the break in the shear to the stearn a few years ago. You can see in the picture where they stopped sanding.

They removed the paint with a torch and a scrapper and then hit it with the 36 grit. When I walked in the shop today it smelled like a pile of fresh cut Juniper, what a smell !!

They will glass it with 1708 and West and then fair it and shoot it Red.
She will better than new and ready to go again for a long time. He also repowered it last year with one of the proto type c-18's 1125 horsepower.

Lots of work but well worth it for the preservation factor.

Troy

[Capt_John]

I love that boat and greg is a fish killer. I'm sure she's gonna look great when it's all said and done.

[JD5652]

Wow!...now that's a project! Would like to see some more of the steps along the way and of course the finished product.

Beautiful lines on her......

[dubb]

Troy, was there any soft or rotten wood in the unglassed area? It is amazing that wood will stand up to that kind of enviroment.

[Capt.Troy Crane]

There was not any bad wood to be seen, just fresh juniper like the day she was built. All of the surfaces not glassed are vertical so water runs off and it was sealed pretty good with lots of paint.
Of course there were a few obvious repair places visible but thats to be expected for a thirty year old boat !!!

I stopped by today and they were preping her for the glass work. Greg said they hoped to start tomorrow. I am going to try and stop by and shoot some pics after I put my boat back in the water and take it back to Pirates Cove in the morning.

Troy

[stafford]

That is one good looking boat, I was loading fish at OI back in the day and that boat is a classic. The line up was Fishin Frenzy, Temtation, Teptress, Smoker with Pelican and Blue Magic further up on the east side of the creek. All those boats had great lines. Best of luck with the glass work, lets see more

[Capt.Troy Crane]

Clarky was probably running her back then. My friend in norfolk,Va. owned the Blue Magic, he had Paul Mann build it for him and Paul ran it for him during the Summer. He took it up to Rudee inlet for a couple of years and then ended up selling it. It ended up in Fla. tha last i heard.

If you look at the picture I took you can see some fairing compound on the side of the boat up under the flare, that is damage that came from the big March storm we had back in the early 90's (I beleive it was) that flooded the sound and raised the water so high that a lot of the boats had the slip pilings jammed through their hull as they rode up and down in the slip in the wind.

I'll update tomorrow,
Troy

[Capt.Troy Crane]

This how they get it done in Wanchese, this crew is made up of charter Capts. and mates who work in the boat shops during the winter. They looked like a gang of spider Monkeys on Red Bull, they were moving.

This phase took less than four hours and they used about ten gallons of resin.

[Frenzy]

Thanks for the pictures Troy, it was tough to use a camera when I was up to my elbows in glue!

[Sea Draggin]

Excellent pics. Your almost done, except for the sanding