PAINT and VARNISH

DANGA BAY MARINA 01° 23' N 103° 43' E


A month has passed and we have continued to keep very busy. Jerry has now turned over 95% of the varnish duties to Kathy and she is doing a fine job. My only remaining jobs are any heavy sanding necessary and brush cleaning. Currently all sanding is done by hand as our two power sanders died and due to the fact that all power tools here are 240 volt we're waiting for one that we bought online to be sent by the Kids.

Kathy has masted the heat gun and scrapper. We have ten floor hatches and they were all taken down to bare wood and then 6 coats of clear varnish. Prior to varnishing I did also have to do some repair work as a number of the glue joints had come apart. More epoxy!!!

Due to the potential of rain most every day all the hatches were done inside, meaning lots of moving stuff around. Once finished Kathy covered each hatch with paper until the whole cabin sole is finished.

The guest room/v-berth looks more like a garage. Hey you have to store stuff somewhere.

As Kathy works inside, in the air conditioning, I continue painting on the outside. the deck delamination repair took lots of time but finally the decks are solid. Next it was painting on the cabin top. After filling holes it was two coats of epoxy primer and today I finished the second coat of gloss. It's WHITE and GLOSSY!! Not perfect but it does pass the ten foot away test.

We had to fashion a shade tarp for the outside work.

As Kathy finishes her varnish she then gets to start sewing new covers for the interior cushions. Another air conditioned job. Once the cabin top paint cures, seven days, we'll redo the non-skid and I get to work on the last part of the deck painting. This will be the gloss inside of the toe rail and more non-skid. In addition we will remove all the lifeline stanctions to make it easier to paint and that they need to be rebedded with new compound as some are leaking. So including the bow pulpit that eleven bases with four bolts each to be taken off and the replaced on each side. One side at a time means only 44 holes that can leak when it rains. I do have a plan for temporary plugs, we'll see how it works.

Now does anyone notice a detail that I have finally corrected? Hey there could be a valuable prize to whom ever comments about the change. Mel Tubbs, you're exempt from this one. More on that in the next edition.