{"id":27286,"date":"2013-03-06T21:09:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T02:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=27286"},"modified":"2013-03-06T23:26:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T04:26:16","slug":"easy-fpb-facelift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/easy-fpb-facelift\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy FPB Facelift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27287\" title=\"20130301 021\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/20130301-021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/20130301-021.jpg 900w, https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/20130301-021-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/20130301-021-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We like the matte gray unobtrusive looks of an aluminum hull that has been exposed to sea water for a year or so. But occasionally after a season of roughing it and sharing the odd harbor rafted to commercial or government vessels,<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>the topsides become adorned with hard to remove marks from dock\/rafting vessel&#8217;s tires. This we do not like.<\/p>\n<p>The answer will be found in a Makita grinder and a couple of boxes of Scotchbrite abrasive pads. One can either delegate the operation of said grinder, or do it oneself.<\/p>\n<p>FPB 64-3, <em>Iron Lady<\/em>, recently got a topside polish, each side taking 40 man hours to complete. This seems like a very reasonable sum, compared to what it takes to keep a GRP hull looking good. On the other hand, there are parts of the world where the down home workboat look fits in better than shine.<\/p>\n<p>It is nice being able to swing both ways.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27288\" title=\"20130301 020\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/20130301-020.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/20130301-020.jpg 900w, https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/20130301-020-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/20130301-020-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We like the matte gray unobtrusive looks of an aluminum hull that has been exposed to sea water for a <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/easy-fpb-facelift\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dashew-blog","category-three"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27286"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27296,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27286\/revisions\/27296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}