Painting is done-almost
11 May 2012 | Vuda Point Marina
Sunny and warm.
Well, the paining is done--almost. We will be adding a few more coats along the boot strip and all along the front edge of the keel where the passage of water will wear away the paint first during passages. We put on two coats(four gallons) of International Ultra hard paint. Sure hope it works as well as the Comex paint we got in Mexico.
Tuesday was haul out and get put in a rack. Once done, scraping off the old paint(or at least a good bit of it) so the new paint will adhere better. Wednesday, more of the same until Tracy was satisfied with the surface. I, meanwhile, cleaned our MaxProp back to it's nice shiny bronze and then screwed in grease nipples and lubed up the gears inside. I'd already put the fingernail polish around the screw holes on the zinc that screws onto the end of the prop so with a bit of Loctite on each screw, it was attached and ready to go by late Thursday afternoon.
Thursday, the first coat of paint was applied. Strangely, two can of paint were very thin and two were very thick so we alternated the application incase one pair of cans was bad. Thick coat on the port side followed by a thin coat and thin coat on the starboard side followed by a thick coat of paint. Guess we will see how it goes once we are back in the water.
Tracy and Elie finished up the last coat yesterday(Friday) by 1030 so I paid off Elie and Tracy took off for the showers. I meanwhile busied myself inside trying to get some sense of order out of the chaos that was inside our boat. If I touched it, it got put away or cleaned. In the after noon, I took off with the laundry while Tracy baked her birthday cake(German Chocolate). Still haven't had any as we got back from dinner so late that we didn't want to push our stomaches any more than we did with dinner.
Today,Saturday is a day off. We're off for town in a few minutes for a nice lunch and then off the see Mirror Mirror at the local movie theatre. It's a rarity that we actually take a day off to play around.
By the way, that's Tracy in her "bunny" suit in the picture while she scraped away at the paint.