Was finally able to get more primer and some good weather and work issues to all sync up. It’s not been very glamorous. Sanding, sanding and a little more sanding.
On to painting! Wrapped the boat in masking film so wouldn’t get overspray on finished portions. Been working out to in more or less on the cap.
I’m very impressed with this valspar tb540pb White paint that a marine store stocks and convinced me to use. It’s about same price/gallon as interlude or Pettit. But, it was much easier to apply than brightsides or easypoxy, faster drying, and amazing results. It’s 4:1, 10-25%. Combined with the legacy primer 9860 also from valspar and some store I’m loving this.
I guess this is what many guys use around here.
I used grits for non-skid. (Sue me, it’s 2.50/box) and I had some leftover Pettit ezpoxy platinum gray from the hull. I sprayed the hatches white with my hvlp setup. And then rolled on the Pettit with a 3/8” roller and promptly coated in grits. Let sit overnight. Recovered the excess with a brush. Then vacuumed off and shook them upside down. And covered with 2 more coats of paint. I suppose 1 would do but I didn’t put it in too heavy.
Here’s nonskid on the hatch for cabin. Taping’s not perfect but I let my artistic daughter do it so it’ll be a memory for her
Fighting chair hatch over fuel tanks. Getting the 1.5” radius between paint and nonskid was less than fun on curves. With a center point i made a rope compass but on the curve without one. Bust out the trusty combo square...
I’ll keep painting as I have time. The top of cap is mostly done. It may need another coat in some areas and some non-skid on the gunnels where you get in. I’m thinking plain white there. The Gray is to tell you this is a safe surface. The white nonskid means use caution anyway.
I still have to paint the cabin and most of the deck and nonskid it.
Then will be gel coating bilge, teak pedestal mounts, teak helm controls, plumbing, and wiring (Not sure the exact order yet...)
I still don’t have a working engine at this point, I either need a 1200 flywheel for my Suzuki 2 stroke, fix these twin ancient evinrude 115’s, or buy something. I hate all my options.
And the trailer is whispering sweet nothings in my ear... I’ll need to replace and weld up frame rails, replace or clean up the leaf springs, trailer hubs and bearings, brake lines, and wiring. Wobble rollers don’t look too bad. I toyed with going to bunk trailer but some of these ramps are steep ramps and at low tide it’s worse.