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Bruce Baker
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Initially Posted - 05/20/2008 :  15:12:11  Show Profile
I understand that you're supposed to sand freshly applied VC-17 paint with 400 grit sandpaper to make your bottom "really" smooth. Is this really necessary? Isn't VC-17 pretty slick right out of the can?

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Bruce Baker
Falls Church, VA
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'83SR/SK
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Nautiduck
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Response Posted - 05/20/2008 :  15:25:54  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">I understand that you're supposed to sand freshly applied VC-17 paint with 400 grit sandpaper to make your bottom "really" smooth. Is this really necessary? <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
No.
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Isn't VC-17 pretty slick right out of the can?
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Yes.
If you are a racer you may want to do that sanding to eek out that final .01mph but otherwise it is not necessary.
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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 05/20/2008 :  16:50:00  Show Profile  Visit Frank Hopper's Homepage
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dlucier
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Response Posted - 05/20/2008 :  17:16:19  Show Profile
VC17 can only be burnished with silk panties...
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Renzo
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Response Posted - 05/21/2008 :  08:11:07  Show Profile
<font size="3"><b>DIFINATELY NOT!</b></font id="size3">

PS:Dave, can I borrow you silk panties mine are in the wash
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SailCO26
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Response Posted - 05/21/2008 :  08:28:42  Show Profile  Visit SailCO26's Homepage
I've been known to wet-sand VC17 with 600, however only when the project list gets low and I have nothing better to do. In other words, I've only done this ONCE (27yo Cp25 w/ never-ending project list).

Did it make a difference? Not NEAR enough to make up for that blown tack and/or set/douse. When your boat handling is near to perfect, then get that picky about the bottom. Otherwise it's fine as applied, esp if you spray it on.

Now where I'd put those panties...
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Bruce Baker
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Response Posted - 05/28/2008 :  07:30:08  Show Profile
After reading your replies, I wasn't going to bother with sanding the VC-17, but my trusty crewman stopped at West Marine and bought a whole box of 600 grit sandpaper, so it would have been a huge faux pas to not try it.

We ripped am 8 1/2x 11 sheet in half (they didn't have 5 inch discs) and each did half the boat. We hand sanded lightly and finished the entire boat in about 15 minutes. The end result was a little bit less shiny than before sanding.

Last night on the race course, we were blazing fast. Thanks to a good start, we got to the top mark first but got passed by a C-27 on the downwind leg. We were second on corrected time--our best finish of the season.
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SailCO26
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Response Posted - 05/28/2008 :  08:52:36  Show Profile  Visit SailCO26's Homepage
Congrats! Keep it going for the rest of the season. :)
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