Thursday, October 25, 2012

Painting the hull (2)

Yesterday I went up North to do some filling and painting of the hull.  After filling some dents yesterday afternoon todaynI did paint the hull for the third time.

To be honest yesterdays filling did not give the expected results.  This became obvious after the painting. The semi-gloss white paint shows any imperfection.

The filling did remove some imperfections but also added others......

I will leave it this way. If I have the courage I will sand the hull again next spring but now I want  to turn the hull to finalize the interior. When the boat is in the water only the fish will see.

Between filling, sanding and painting I had enough time to prepare the garden for the winter and tomorrow I will bring my motorboat to its winter storage.

It is now really end-of-season. The harbor next to my cottage is almost empty now and there are no boats on the water anymore . Expected temperature tomorrow around 10 degr C.

This is the first blog entry without pictures but another picture showing a painted hull would not excite anyone.

Monday, October 8, 2012

Painting the hull

Last weekend we went up North to work on the hull of the Peapod and some more tasks around the cottage.

First of course a good sanding of the epoxied hull. Followed by protecting the sheerstrake with masking tape and paper.




After the first coat of off-white poly urethane paint several uneven spots on the hull became apparent that were hardly noticable with the clear epoxy coat.

As I had the epoxy filler paste back home I just applied the second coat and afterwards removed the masking tape.

At one spot the masking tape had not been applied correctly apparently as there were some paint spots on the sheerstrake.

Next time I will apply some filler paste on the questionable spots before putting on one or two more coats of paint. 

Als still some patience before the Pakesizzer will make its first trip.