Today I painted nearly everything at least once. I decided to go with all Thousand Islands in the cockpit, decks and wells so I put the first coat on the decks and wells and the second coat in the cockpit. Varnished the mast and tiller, painted the rudder, seats, rudder cheek and one side of [...]
Entries from September 2008
September 29, 2008
4/407 More priming and painting
Today I got Everything covered with at least two coats of primer….well, except for the top of the leeboard that I noticed 30 seconds after having dumped the last little bit of primer Now I’ll have to mix up a small batch just for that spot. Dang!
Put a second coat of varnish on [...]
September 28, 2008
14/403 Sep 27 & 28/2008
The last two days have been busy and productive. The biggest milestone has been epoxying the front decking to the hull. This was a big job requiring lots of clamps and a little resourcefulness. I tried clamping it in place withthe clamps on hand and figured I needed about 4 more of the bar clamps [...]
September 26, 2008
4/389 Mast!!! and Decking
Well, today I steeled up my courage and went at the mast with the Makita 1902 planer I purchased a week or so ago. It went pretty well. In about 2 1/2 hours I was done with the planer. The rest will be sanding, maybe some hand plane to round over the edges and varnishing. [...]
September 25, 2008
4/385 More Paint & Primer
Today I went straight to Benjamin Moore after work to pick up some paint as I had run out of the white paint I used for the hull and inside the bulkheads. They didn’t have any more white of the type I had used so I picked some paint of the same type to be [...]
September 24, 2008
3/381 Mast Step
Today I used up the rest of the Benjamin Moore white paint putting a second coat on the front compartment.
Next, I mixed up some epoxy and used it to seal the the lead into the rudder. Then I thickened the remainder and used it to fair the top of the sink weight.
Lastly, I epoxied [...]
September 23, 2008
5/378 Lead and Paint
Today I stopped in at a tire shop and got a bunch of used tire weights. When I came home I went out to the shed and dug out the old Coleman stove we used when I was a kid. I lit it up once a few years ago to see if it worked and [...]
September 21, 2008
5/373 Second Coat of Paint
Today I got up early and moved things around in the garage to facilitate laying a bunch of pieces on the floor for painting…rudder, seats, etc, etc. I also vacuumed all the dust everywhere so that my second coat of paint on the hull would have a better chance of coming out without many little [...]
September 20, 2008
12/368 First Coat of Paint On!
The last few days have been spent mostly sanding and sanding and sanding. My only advice to anybody else starting a boat of their own….budget to pay somebody else to sand and paint it for you
But finally, at 2 this afternoon I started the first coat of paint on the hull. I [...]
September 16, 2008
10/353 Two Coats of Primer On!
Over the last three days I have sanded and done a few other odds and ends getting the hull ready for primer. Today, September 16th, I left work early in order to be able to work while it is warm out and I got two coats of primer onto the hull.
I am using a two [...]
