January 30, 2025

PT11-60

Thursday

The first coat of gloss paint had not been ready to sand the morning after application, but now, the next day, I could–and did–lightly sand the paint with 320 grit paper, scuffing the gloss and correcting a run here or drip there.  Once the sanding was complete, I completely changed up how I’d set up the two halves for painting, as I’d had a continuing challenge with getting reasonable access to the inside of the aft hull, in particular, which was a complicated little thing to paint.

Now, I moved the aft half to the floor, where I set it up on a blanket for protection and added chocks to support it securely, and set up the forward half on the work table.  The forward half, being much smaller and lighter and with a simpler paint scheme, was far less of a problem for access and decent paint application and would work on the raised table, as it hadn’t given me any particular problems with access, but now I planned to literally get in the aft half to allow better access to the complicated after regions, and also allow me to work forward on both sides at once to maintain a wet edge.

Later in the day, after final tack-off and preparations, I applied the second coat of gloss white polyurethane to the inside hull areas.  I’d found previously that many of the spaces were too tight to properly use a roller, so this time I worked with brush alone, and with the better access to the inside of the boat, from being inside myself, I was much more pleased with the results.

Total time billed on this job today: 3.5 hours