February 21, 2025

PT11-67

Friday

Getting ready to do the primer and finish coats on the outside of the hulls, I set the hull halves upside down on a work table and some saw horses to support them during the next rounds of work.  The exteriors were mainly ready for primer, but would require just a bit of touch-up work to remove a bit of paint from the interior work here or there, and so forth.

I went around the hull sections and lightly sanded away a spilled bit of paint here or there, and cleaned up some places where the various turning and angling of the hulls while working on the interior had slightly scuffed up the surface.  After cleanup, I masked off the gunwales, mating bulkheads, and any other areas as required for hull primer and topcoat.

After final preparations, I applied a coat of 2-part primer to the hull sections.  The primer was easier to apply on the relatively broad sections of the hull versus the interior.  At this early stage the primer, while still glossy from application, highlighted the condition of the hull beneath, which looked good, fair and smooth.

Total time billed on this job today: 2.75 hours