There is paint all over the boat. After one coat it looked like this:
The lovely tipper-outer in the background is my highly valued wife, Sooz. She did the tipping out. This may require some explanation.
This unusual paint, which, like the the primer before it, costs more than your average college education (per quart), goes on with a thin-napped foam roller. When you roll it on, however, it's full of bubbles -- looking not unlike the powdered milk Mom used to serve right after it had been mixed up. Really bubbly. I didn't experiment, but my understanding is that these bubbles will not pop and smooth out by themselves, so unless we wanted a bubbly-surfaced boat, we had to do an additional step.
This second step is called 'tipping out,' perhaps because one uses the tip of a brush -- a foam brush in this case, and is it really a brush if it's made of foam? -- to do the deed. Or maybe it has something to do with gratuities (if so, please don't tell the tipper-outer -- we need to save our nickels and dimes for more foam brushes). At any rate, since I am more suited to slapping things together and then wandering off, and Sooz is better suited to careful, deliberate, high-quality work, our roles were easy to choose.
It took about half an hour to do the sanding between coats, and we did three coats of this stuff. The result isn't perfect -- there are a few spots that don't look quite as shiny -- but we're confident that the hull is protected from the elements -- by many layers of epoxy, fiberglass, primer, and paint. And, as the tipper-outer says, "It's the bottom, for pete's sake. Who's gonna see it?" Or something like that.
She is probably going to divorce me for including this image because she wasn't given an opportunity to, uh, shower after this relatively hot work (we have the garage closed up to avoid breeze, bugs, dust, etc.).
Pretty shiny paint, this stuff is. It's hard to get the colors right when you're an amateur photographer, but this stuff is the color of vanilla bean ice cream. Mmmmmmmm.
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