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Thursday, June 19, 2008 After a day away from the project to give the primer time to cure and to work on wrapping up another boat project at the shop, I began today by hand-sanding the high-build primer in the cockpit to prepare it for the next coats of finish primer later in the day. Then, I cleaned up the dust and reassembled the spray gun, among other tasks to get ready for painting. With some limits as to what I could get done on the boat while I completed the cockpit paint process, and not wanting to apply the next primer coats till the end of the day, I decided to approach the starboard toerail dry-fit in the meantime. I unclamped the joint that I re-epoxied on Monday, and managed to get the long rail up on the boat, and then repeated the installation process that I detailed in the earlier description of the port side.The dry-fit was uneventful save for one screw where apparently I hadn't drilled the pilothole deeply enough; when the screw came up hard, unexpectedly, the head sheared right off. This was annoying, but I was pretty sure that when I removed the rail later, I'd be able to carefully pry the rail off the remains of this screw, since I drilled larger pilot holes through the wood rail for the screw shanks. At least, I hoped this would be the case. Time would tell. |
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After the successful (temporary)
installation of the starboard toerail, I cleaned up the boat again and
cleaned up the debris from the drilling and screwing operations, then
resecured the paper and plastic that I'd temporarily moved in order to
install the rail. Then, with a couple hours to fill till priming
time, I moved over to another boat for the moment. Late in the day, I applied two solid coats of Alexseal 442 white primer to the cockpit areas. |
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