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Bahamas Dinghy Floorboard THIXO Repair and Kirby Paint
10 June 2025 · 16 min · 104 views · Chesapeake Bay
What this video covers
TotalBoat ThickSet Flex epoxy fills delamination voids and loose screw holes in the plywood floorboards of a small Bahamas dinghy that has been in storage near the Chesapeake Bay since at least 1980.▶ 0:54 Kent uses the two-part ThickSet Flex — dispensed with a cartridge gun — to pack voids in the plywood plies and re-bed the wood screws that hold the floorboard cleats together, deliberately stopping short of a full glue-up so the boards can be disassembled later.▶ 3:31 A tip: release the gun's plunger pressure after each dispense to prevent the epoxy from continuing to ooze.▶ 2:45 A soldering iron applied to a screw can soften old adhesive when removal is difficult.▶ 4:12 Checking in the fir plywood is addressed with a skim coat of epoxy before paint.▶ 10:57 The finish coat is George Kirby oil-based marine paint, mixed to a custom "skipper's Bahamas blue" intended to approximate the colour of the Bahamas flag.▶ 11:30 The dinghy is planned for dry-sailing — used and then stored out of the water — rather than kept afloat.▶ 6:42 TotalBoat also offers a fast-cure ThickSet variant for cold-weather work.▶ 0:05
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