Today Paul showed me how to caulk the spaces between the bulwark and the first rubrail/rail strake. There were some honking big cracks. Which I filled. Then you have to go over the caulk with paint thinner to feather it in and make sure the caulk gets in the cracks.
Even though I wore rubber
gloves the thinner wore right through them--thank goodness I did not like my
new nail polish. Now there is just a
little more epoxying to do, thanks to some holes I missed, and Paul has to make
a Dutchman for the big mother all holes, and then it’s time to prime the top.
Paul has some gold paint which I am going to paint the lower
rubrail with, instead of sanding it down and varnishing it—I will never get all
that black paint out. Paul is being
genial but you can tell he does not think it is a great idea. “It’s a WORK boat!” he keeps telling me. Well, yes, but a work boat can have a little
sparkle.
Nora came over today and scraped the deck a bit. I was heat-gunning more green paint, and
realized that the boat should be re-named the Bondo Brown—the hull is 1/3 epoxy, and do you know how hard it is
to get paint off of epoxy without shearing off half of it?
But here it is (on the side I did not heat-gun today), caulked and bulwark/sheer strake sanded. This had better end soon!
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