We're making steady progress on getting the hull back in shape. Had to do some major scraping of the bottom paint that was peeling from the bare fiberglass - the hull was not thoroughly dewaxed before its initial bottom painting in 2003, and sitting 2 years in the sun caused alot of paint to separate.
After scraping, sanding, and dewaxing, we applied non-sand primer paint on the bare fiberglass patches. This primer is super sticky stuff - they must mix glue in with the paint.
Next comes a layer of red bottom paint covering up the no-sand primer spots to build up the areas scraped down.
Then we're ready for a full coat of red undercoating. Meanwhile, I'm still working on the boot stripe. Put on a undercoating of white filler to repair the numerous scratches along the waterline - I guess from mooring balls. I have finished the first sanding. Now need to repeat with finer grade sandpaper.
Along with bottom prep and painting, we have also been stripping and Cetoling the gunnel. Got 4 coats on in the past week and now time to reinstall the stainless rubrail. We will do the top of the gunnels once the boat is back in the water. Its just much easier to do the outside while the boat is pulled.
