Spirit of America

[dr gary turner]

Spirit of America out of DOCS restoration shop.
New power.

The boat is 20-25 years old

 

[Greg Wannamaker]

Another sharp looking boat, nice.

 

[dr gary turner]

Another sharp looking boat, nice.

Thanks

 

[Greg Wannamaker]

Thanks

Hey Doc, I’ve always been a fan of checkering and you use it on most of your boats, do you paint that or do you have custom checkering sheets made for your creations?

 

[dr gary turner]

Everything on the boat is PPG paint.

Mark Bullard and I bought a stencil city machine. So we cut out the checker or words lay it down and spray through the stencil. Mark designs what I want on the computer and the machine cuts it.

Sounds easy, but takes some time and a lot of masking and thinking.

After every has been painted I scuff it with a scuff pad to get rid of or at least lower the ridge lines and then clear coat everything.

The scuff pad works better for me than sandpaper which sends to smear say the blue or red into the white.

I am sure professional painters have a better way, but it works for me.

 

[dr gary turner]

This is all PPG paint except the actual Lucas decal.

 

[Greg Wannamaker]

That’s amazing I hope to see some of your work in person one day.

 

[David Bryant]

beautiful boat (outrigger). Is that a CMB 67HR ? Or an .80HR ?

 

[dr gary turner]

67
It took first place in SAW and 3rd in the trophy last week at the Nats.

I did a poor job driving it in the heat racing. It was cornering so fast it got ahead of me.

I finally decreased the end point and speed on the rudder, and it drove better but just too late to rack u points.