Daily Archives: February 22, 2013

Progress…

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The great unveiling…

Oh Yeah! Looking good!

Charisma is definitely one happy girl with her new coat of paint. It's a little um, "brighter" than I had planned, but what the heck.

We also put on the new bobstay fitting (the pic didn’t turn out, I’ll post tomorrow) and I finished the laz hatch project and installed the hatches back in the cockpit.

Was also nice to see our friends Mark and Ann from Blue Rodeo who dropped by Charisma this morning.  They are back from the States and getting ready to do some boat projects of their own.  Great to see them back!

The inside with the new plywood backing. Compare this to the pic a week or so ago...

So there we are.  Now down the home stretch with the drudgery of stripping the rail with the heat gun yet to go.  But it’s kind of a zen-like experience.  You really get into a groove and before you know it you’ve been doing it for hours.  Then…hours and hours of varnishing.   Whoo Hooo (not).

We’re going for dinner to John and Lisa’s (Orcinius) tonight.  Yay!

 

Two Weeks And Dog Tired…

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Tell the truth I was so exhausted today I just took a long nap this afternoon.  We can hardly believe we’re been at this non-stop for two weeks.  We also had a good excuse to take a break today since the “boys” sprayed the bottom paint on the boat today.  Two coats, four (roughly) gallons-each costing $250/can.  Ouch.

Anyway, here are some pictures of the continuing adventure of being on the hard.

Taking the heat gun to the toe-rail. Don't try and dry your cat with this. It's about 2000 watts and I already burned my chest hair.

It gets very detailed. You have to get every last bit of the old varnish or it shows through on the new.

We had a sign painter touch up Charisma's name.

He was a real pro. Look closely at the "M". The original left off the shadow, which he noticed and fixed as shown in the next pic

Oh yeah, Charisma is smiling with all this attention (see the drop shadow on the "M"?)

Time to tape. We're spray painting the bottom paint

Mixing the paint. Four gallons at $250/gallon (actually it's in metric and I have no clue as to the actual quantity-it looks about a gallon per can). Yikes!

Here we go. Wow, that's RED! It's getting more subtle as it dries.

All done. Can't wait for the great unveiling tomorrow.

OK, so that’s my excuse.  Ann kept on polishing.  You go girl!

So…on another subject, here’s a great recipe for dinner.  We bought some snapper fillets (any nice whitefish filet will do-flounder would be good), wrapped them in foil with butter, chopped garlic, chopped basil, chopped parsley, salt, pepper and a couple slices of lemon.  Put on the barbie for about five minutes and…delicious!  Go do it tonight!