Kembali

Initial paint on hull exterior. I briefly considered leaving the #4 strake finished bright. Then I remembered just how much I hate varnishing. Blue it is. I used Interlux Toplac Plus for all the paint. This boat will not spend extended periods in the water, so it seems fine to use topside paint for this rather than antifouling paint. I made a massive mistake here that will become obvious later.

I hate varnishing. I love clear-finished wood, but the little time I have left on this Earth is not going to be spent varnishing wood. Everything on this boat will be painted, except the tiller, which will be finished with Tung Oil. The photos just show progress painting the coaming and king plank. Because the desk is non-slip, and therefore rough, I used the green painter's tape here. It's advertised for rough surfaces but is more expensive than the blue tape. It helped some but there was still some wicking of green paint under the tape. The solution was to mask off the coaming and paint over the green paint that escaped onto the deck. There are two coats of primer and three coats of Toplac Plus in Donegal Green.

The photos are about finishing up the anchor locker hatch. In 3 you can see how I painted latex over epoxy, and it looks pretty good. A while later, in 5 you can see a near-total failure of the latex to hold onto the epoxy. I am not sure what happened here. I have been painting latex over epoxy for decades and have never had a failure. Elsewhere on the boat, the same paint has bonded tenaciously to the exact same type of epoxy. I am not sure what happened. I stripped off the failed paint, primed it with Pre-Kote Plus and repainted. It is holding on fine after that. In 8-11 you can see the placement of the hinges, cutout for the chain, and the hatch dog. This hatch cover doesn't have a gasket seal because the anchor locker has drains on port and starboard to let water out.