Paint Update | Bad News (Again...)

As mentioned in a previous post I glossed the companionway drop boards at the same time as the centreboard, so they were finished.

I did this because I wanted to test the latest paint job for resilience, the white paint having blistered the first time round.

So I put the drop boards outside, resting on the trailer. Here they are.

I thought no more about them, not seriously expecting  any problems due to the extreme care I had taken to paint them in accordance with the paint manufacturer's instructions on which brushes, rollers and thinners to use.

So imagine my dismay when I checked them a week or so later and found ... micro blisters.

The blisters appeared where water (rain) had lain on the upper surface of the boards. Exactly the same as the first time round.

I informed the paint manufacturer and they asked me to send them the boards, so I sent the lower board which was the worst affected.

This is the paint in question.

I really don't know what to do now.

I can't risk painting the boat again only to find that it blisters as soon as we put it outside on its trailer.

I will wait to see what the manufacturer says, but my mind is pretty well made up that I will switch to a different paint.

I hear great things about Epifanes, so I will give that a try with another test.

Journey has temporarily become something of an Ordeal.

Painting The Hull | Getting Ready For Gloss

When the white primer was fully dry I pulled the masking tape to see how much grey primer would need to be touched up where I had sanded through it.

It did need some work, but not a repaint as with the white primer.

I taped up some small patches on the edges of the boot top stripe and touched them up with grey primer. This is what it looked like.

This is what the transom looked like after the masking tape had been pulled.

We are now ready for gloss paint!

I decided to apply the white first and taped and masked off the grey primer accordingly.

This is what the boat now looked like on the starboard quarter.

And here is the view from the front.

It feels like we are close to finishing the bottom of the hull!