Over spring break I was able to get a bunch of projects finished and now I'm back to weekends. This is obviously not idea given that I am a 3-5 hour drive to my boat.
Enough complaining back to the project:
Enough complaining back to the project:
I pulled the deck out and tossed her into the snow.
She looked very sad just sitting there, but I needed to clear out some space so I could access all sides of the hull.
My plan was to sand off the the layers of bottom paint applied by the previous owners.
Deciding what to use for bottom paint was no easy decision. I read and read and contemplated the merits of all the product out there.
The facts came down to: 1. I care about the environment (I am a biology teacher after all), 2. this is a trailerable sailboat, and 3. I don't mind jumping into the water and scrubbing the bottom.
Too many hours latter - time to switch projects.
The motor mount has been rebuilt so now it needs a mounting block for the motor. I looked around the woodshop and found an old rough chunk of oak... good enough.
Ok, enough of that, back to business.
Many, many dusty hours later.
Back to the motor mount project.
Time to start prepping and painting. This is the second sailboat that I have stripped down and painted. Last time I used materials and paints that yielded results that were not so great. This time I decided to spend a little more time doing my homework and choose paints that come highly recommended.
I bought all of my products from Jamestown Distributors. I have been dealing with them for about 3 years and they have never let me down. They have some super enthusiastic staff who are happy to problem solve and trouble shoot for an hour on the phone if you want to... where on earth does costumer service like that still exist??
Here is my order: for topside deck I am going to use Jamestown's house brand 'Wet Edge' white paint, for my freeboard Epifanes Mono-urethane Yacht Paint, non-skid will be KiwiGrip, and I decided to go with VC Performance Epoxy for bottom paint for the aforementioned reasons.
I am going to apply the paint using the ol' rolling and tipping method with a wet-sand in between coats.
I'll let the pictures do the talking:
My plan was to sand off the the layers of bottom paint applied by the previous owners.
Deciding what to use for bottom paint was no easy decision. I read and read and contemplated the merits of all the product out there.
The facts came down to: 1. I care about the environment (I am a biology teacher after all), 2. this is a trailerable sailboat, and 3. I don't mind jumping into the water and scrubbing the bottom.
At the beginning.
Too many hours latter - time to switch projects.
The motor mount has been rebuilt so now it needs a mounting block for the motor. I looked around the woodshop and found an old rough chunk of oak... good enough.
Ok, enough of that, back to business.
Many, many dusty hours later.
Back to the motor mount project.
Time to start prepping and painting. This is the second sailboat that I have stripped down and painted. Last time I used materials and paints that yielded results that were not so great. This time I decided to spend a little more time doing my homework and choose paints that come highly recommended.
I bought all of my products from Jamestown Distributors. I have been dealing with them for about 3 years and they have never let me down. They have some super enthusiastic staff who are happy to problem solve and trouble shoot for an hour on the phone if you want to... where on earth does costumer service like that still exist??
I am going to apply the paint using the ol' rolling and tipping method with a wet-sand in between coats.
I'll let the pictures do the talking:
