February 12, 2018
Needing to get the bad taste out of my mouth from what was an agonizing weekend of painting, I quickly outfitted for a quick painting session. I pulled the shop vac over to the new "paint booth", as well as sanding materials and the companionway hatch.
I covered the same course I had over the weekend - the outer edge of the deck, poop deck, and foredeck - with 400-grit paper. The surface by now has been built up with a number of coats of primer and finish paint, and hand-sanding work in between coats has removed irregularities in the decks. The sanding prep went without issue.
I returned to the shop and mixed a small pot of Interlux Perfection and set it aside for the induction period. While the paint was catalyzing, I came back to Joule to vacuum the surfaces and then wipe down with a rag dampened with solvent. Back in the shop, I thinned the now catalyzed paint with brushing reducer Interlux 2333N and moved back over to Joule.
Paint went on nicely...was not battling the elements, gnats that for some reason cannot resist the off-gas process that epoxy and these two-part paints give off, and miscellaneous
detritus floating through the air. All surfaces painted this evening appear to be final.
The temporary "paint booth" was a good decision.
Total Time Today: 1.5 hrs
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