Winter 2008-2009 Refit | Monday, December 22, 2008
I sanded the bootop in what I
initially thought would be a brief step to take care of
before applying a final coat (hopefully) of snow white
paint. But I just wasn't happy with the first two
coats, and as I sanded I realized what I had to do, and what
I should have just done in the first place: I decided
to prepare/protect the boat and spray-apply three coats of
paint.
I was dumb to try and brush
it when I had better technology available. For some
brief moment the decision had seemed to make sense, even
though from the getgo I had questioned my decision. I
now knew beyond all certainty that yes, Virginia, it was
worth all the prep, taping, papering, plastic, and so forth
in order to use the spray gun to apply the paint--even to
something as silly as a boottop. One never stops
learning, even when one already knows better and has already
learned; there's always room to reinforce one's existing
knowledge, even (especially?) if it's through ill-conceived
and hard-headed notions.
After kicking myself around
the room, I got back to it and covered the decks and part of
the hull with plastic and taped it in place; the 12' plastic
I had on hand wasn't wide enough to drape to the waterline
amidships, so I had to augment it with additional strips of
masking paper. Then, I papered the remaining exposed
strip beneath the plastic as needed, and also covered the
antifouling with my habitual 12" wide paper to protect it
from overspray. |
