February 15, 2018
Arriving home, I quickly suited up for a sanding and painting session. I am building up to final coat on the cabin and cockpit, and likely the penultimate coat was going on today.
I worked the cabin and cockpit, as well as the companionway slide hatch, with 400-grit by hand. The iterative process of sanding out imperfections and applying the thin coat of finish paint (Interlux Perfection) is tedious but necessary. I would love to have a controlled space for spraying...and just be done with primer in one day, and finish paint in one day! But alas, my homemade "paint booth" was all that I had...,"Guv-na."
I mixed a pot of paint, set it aside so that it could catalyze, and then vacuumed and wiped clean the surfaces to be painted. With paint now thinned and in hand, I worked my way from cabin to cockpit without any issues.
This fourth coat will very likely be the preview to the final coat.
I left Joule and returned to the shop to apply paint to the companionway slide hatch. There is adequate coverage on the slide hatch, but I regularly seem to have just enough paint left in the pot to apply yet another coat to the hatch.
Total Time Today: 1.75 hrs