People buy boats for lots of reasons: fishing, cruising, water sports. Dan Powers seems to enjoy taking them apart and putting them back together. Over the years, the 43-year-old, Austin, Texas, video and film director and editor has undertaken major restorations of all kinds of vessels, from an 18-foot sportboat to a houseboat. Blame it on his nautical upbringing.
The Wellcraft https://independent.academia.edu/MarinaWareham/Post every single item on the boat except for the bow rails -- the windshields, the seats, every light, cleat, rubrail, everything," he says. "I sanded every inch of that boat and patched every scratch and ding. It is hard to imagine how much work this was, and it was all done in the Texas sun."
Old chrome parts were rechromed, metal parts polished, props repitched, rubrails replaced, windshields redone and their frames powder-coated. Powers also added new cockpit upholstery, helm switches, electronics and a Bimini top.
Below the waterline, the old bottom paint was blasted away, and replaced by three coats of
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