Stareed

After sanding the first coat, shot the second. Now to fill and sand all the little pin holes and other little blemishes, longboard and sand it all over again, and spray it one more time with primer hopefully, then the Brightsides. Still working on the oars, got some sweet stainless oar locks at the world famous Sailers Exchange here in town for a smooth 40 bucks.

Kept raining off and on yesterday, so no paint. I did get the final coat of varnish on the mast, started making my oars, and sanded the prime coat on the boat so not a huge waste.

Finally got a coat of primer on the thing! right before the storm to boot. Interlux 404 Primecoat epoxy primer with 2316n reducer (i think) sprayed with a Fuji 3 stage turbine with a 1.8 needle in the gun, thinned to 25%.

Yes, I have......Super busy building a new business but I have all the hardware and just ordered the sail. I should start painting this week. I will post some pictures when I can.

Thank you Steve, Really did make me slow down a bit.

Dont know what happened above, I wrote it in Word and copied pasted it here, came out as a image

Congratulations, I have enjoyed watching along as you built it and enjoyed your humor as well. Whats the next build?

Walt, Understood, We (my brother and I) are going to build a small pole barn, about 12x24 and put some cheap metal roof on it and have tarp curtain sides to keep the rain out and the looky-lou's away, it will be semi permanent, we are going to just use 4x4 posts and a simple raked roof, no hip or gable. When we are done he'll use it for his landscaping business- which means he'll be pay for the materials haha. If it flys away, we most likely are going to have more serious things to worry about.

Oyster, Thanks for the info, after speaking with my brother today we will be building a structure on his property for this next build, I really like being able to pop outside and do a little bit when I want, but this actually may increase productivity as I will have to be more efficient in planning, more 8 hour power building days and less messing around in the shop. I am gone 6 months of the year, and previous to my current job I was gone 8 months a year - the whole house is her's, I just visit my family at that location! Wish I had room to build a proper shop, maybe one day.... when I no longer need to go to sea for money, but in 25 years I may want to move to Kansas haha- I had a Captain once who said " When I retire, I'm going to throw an oar on my shoulder and walk inland until someone says "whats that" and then I will know I'm far enough away form it"

Gentlemen, The day is slowly approaching when I will be evicted from my boatshop...... I mean garage, the 17' solid spar I made for the mast for the Spindrift and store on top of the garage door tracks was apparently the straw that broke the wife's patience, well that and the year it took me to build it; Oh and the fact that she recently found the plans for the 18' skiff that my brother and I plan on building this fall- to which she said "oh hell no, no more boats in her garage". She wants her storage space back for bins of useless stuff like various seasonal decorations and all the other female "stuff". I have pretty much taken it all at this point, workbench and tools, boat, and all the other stuff have engulfed the whole space, she was not satisfied with the shelving that I made for her, I admit its 8' off the ground and you need a ladder to retrieve that bin that says "scrap-booking supplies" that she uses never. After 19 years she has put up with a lot from me and I love her, so I am in search of a portable garage thing with a tarp cover that I can put on the side yard to house the next and current boat, I have successfully negotiated the rights to half of the garage to retain all my woodworking tools as they make money for me, when I am not offshore. My plan is do work in the garage and assembly/storage in the shed. Anybody doing the same? What brand to you recommend? there seem to be endless choices. I am in Florida and while I dont need snow load protection, I do need sides and a front and back to keep rain out and the ability to roll up the sides for ventilation to avoid dying in there from the heat while working on the boat.

What a great wealth of knowledge gone, spoke with him several times, he even offered to give me a few things. So sad, we will all be worse off with out him on these forums, I learned a lot from his posts. Fair winds and following seas Paul. Hulsey

Think I will just buy a gallon of Interlux 404, West Marine has a match the price thing going on, and the store in town has some. The boat has been sitting for 3 weeks at this point ( I go home tomorrow) but I still will be putting some epoxy here and there when I get back and do not want to wait another couple of weeks, I only have 3 off as it is. Thank you all for your imput

Sounds like I made a 100 dollar mistake, not the first and Im sure not to be the last.

What about a first coat with the Epoxy Primekote and then Pre-Kote on top for sandablety- new word!

Gentlemen, As I set here at work obsessing about the paint job I will be attempting when I get back to land, I may have a problem. I bought Interlux Pre-Kote and Brightsides to paint the boat with and while going over the data sheet, I found this on the last page: Compatibility/Substrates - Apply to clean, dry, properly prepared surfaces only. Do not apply over clear epoxy such as Epiglass Epoxy. For epoxy resin, use Epoxy Primekote Y404 as primer following proper preparation to the epoxy resin Ugggghhhh..... I have, I know read about many people using it over epoxy, is Interlux worrying about the epoxy blush? Is it "that will not work, buy the more expensive stuff" ploy? I have already bought the Pre-Kote and would not like having to buy another gallon of 100 dollar primer, plus I wanted the high build aspect as well, the boat is pretty fair but I wanted "smooth as a women's lower back" surface and from what I've read the Epoxy Primekote 404 is not very high build. Dont want to screw anything up at this point so close to the finish line. Please advise