Winter 2008-2009 Refit | Sunday, December 14, 2008
I didn't intend to work on
Sunday, but when I got up in the morning I couldn't help
thinking of my schedule for the coming weeks, and I came to
the realization that I had to get Glissando's paint finished
as soon as possible. Frankly, I needed the work bay:
the boat was in my main bay, where I typically do all my
real work and always do the painting. But having my
own boat in this critical space was beginning to crimp my
style at work during the week; I found myself postponing
some of the projects on the current job because the second
shop bay wasn't really set up for much of the dirty work
(with too much ancillary storage deployed within that bay).
The long and the sort of it
is that I elected to go ahead with the finish primer on
Sunday, with an eye towards sanding it at the end of the day
Monday, after work. This would just accelerate the
process and get me ready for the topcoats sooner than later,
so that I could move my boat back to the other side for less
significant projects and stop affecting my daily work.
I determined that the
filler over the small scratch from yesterday had cured, so I
block sanded it with 220 until smooth. Then, I mixed
up an appropriate amount of primer and left it to react for
15 minutes, as directed, during which time I solvent-washed
the hull with Alexseal wipe-down solvent, and then tacked
off.
Then, during the rest of
the morning, I applied three coats of Alexseal 442 gray
finish primer in the usual manner, leaving it to cure the
rest of the day and beyond. |
