110 Cookson Lane | Whitefield, ME 04353 | 207-232-7600 | tim@lackeysailing.com
Ashantee | Thursday, March 5, 2015
Before applying gloss topcoat, it was time to mask off the eventual nonskid areas, both to establish the pattern and to protect them against overspray. I always looked forward to this task: perhaps it was because it signaled the end of a long road of sanding, repair, and preparation; or maybe it was the quiet, clean, contemplative, quasi-artistic nature of the job. In any event, masking the decks was one of my favorite chores.
I set my habitual 1-1/2" border width in most areas, except a few select places where circumstances dictated something wider (for example, the outboard edges of the cockpit, where I left an additional inch to accommodate the thickness of the coamings) or narrower (such as the top surfaces of the Dorade boxes, which were small enough to require a slightly narrower border a the top). Over the course of the day, I laid out, then masked, then papered, the main deck areas as required, demarking the edges of the gloss paint and the eventual field areas of contrrasting nonskid.
Total Time Billed on This Job Today: 7.75
Hours
