Yesterday evening I went down to King Malu to do the second coat for part of the interior of the saloon. My target for the week is to complete the interior painting for the saloon and the exterior for the cabin room at both the for'ard and aft ends.
In the saloon I removed the drop cloths where I didn't need to paint anymore. Sadly some of the lacquer paint hadn't adhered as well as I had hoped and came off with the masking tape. I will retouch with an art brush sometime.
We have used almost completely the two litre packs of Awlgrip undercoat (a two litre pack makes between 4.5 and 5 litres of paint, since you add hardener and reducer to the mix. We will need another 1 litre pack, so I called Haris at Ocean Marine today and it will be shipped overnight so is here in the morning.
I had intended masking and painting the undercoat on the very back of the stern cabin roof, recoating tomorrow morning and then top coat late afternoon, final coat on Saturday so we could lay Treadmaster on Sunday. But it was soooo cold today when I went down today that I gave up on that idea. We will hopefully get Treadmaster down on the saloon/for'ard cabin roof over the weekend but not the stern cabin.
The reason for the push is that when it rains we get water coming into the cabins which I really want to stop.
Anyhow, this afternoon I went down to King Malu and I did complete the second topcoat for the saloon/for'ard cabin roof and a first topcoat around the cockpit.
I haven't worked out one problem. The roller - which is a decent mohair roller - sheds hairs for the first few minutes of use. The paint is so expensive you don't want to waste it, yet the hairs really almost spoil the surface. I read online about 'shed resistant mohair rollers' but there is a choice of one roller here so it's not easy to get really decent paint brushes and rollers.
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