We got all three coats of paint (plus the primer coat underneath) finished up last Tuesday or thereabouts. It was pretty exacting work, but Sooz made it easy on me by following along behind my roller with her foam brush, tipping out the bubbles. It's odd -- I've not seen paint go on so bubbly before. I suppose it has to do with the type of paint -- my experience was limited to interior and exterior house paint, and maybe some Rust-oleum.
The masking you see below is in two layers -- some 3M "Fineline" tape to give us a really clean edge, and then some painters tape with plastic stuff attached to protect the entire sheer strake. We learned this last was required when I put on the primer and got splotches of it on the sheer strake. Not good.
Once we took the masking off and got the boat flipped back over, it looked even more like a Real Boat. But I forgot to take a picture.
Anyway, now the boat is right-side up again, thanks to neighbor-and-pal Kurt and his friend Steve, who didn't even ask for a beer and were kind enough to not comment on the myriad flaws presented by the build.
We wanted to start varnishing yesterday, Sunday, but we couldn't -- we woke up to rain and 93% humidity. High humidity can cause "loss of gloss" in varnish, so we waited a day and did other stuff instead (including the suspense and thrill of drilling holes in the tiller where it will attach to the top of the rudder).
This morning I got up, grumbled through the morning chores and got ready. I would wipe the boat down with $900-per-ounce "brushing liquid" (overpriced mineral spirits), and then mask, and then we would varnish.
It worked out that way, sort of. More on that later.
Comments