Cabin Interior | Repainting

It was time to apply paint inside the cabin.

I thought I had used a quality paint the previous time but I was advised by a professional decorator that it wasn't that great.

So this time round I chose the best I could find. This is it.

It is Dulux Trade brilliant white eggshell for interior use, solvent based.

I first painted the stringers and carlins with a brush, to see how the paint felt.

It was very thick and hard to apply straight out of the tin, so I asked the Dulux people if I could thin it.

The rather grumpy lady who runs the store said to use white spirit but no more than 10%, or I would "destroy the integrity of the paint". Now, we don't want that to happen, do we?!

A test with 5% white spirit added to the eggshell caused the paint to flow very nicely, so that's what I did for the entire repaint.

I used the same roller sleeves that I used with the Epifanes yacht paint, by Rota. They are excellent. This is them.

Two rollers were needed, with a long and a short handle. Here they are.

Two coats were applied and at time of writing seem to have done the job.

This is the centreboard case, seen through a porthole.

And this is the roof.

I will see what it looks like when dry but I am really pleased with how this turned out.

Now I need to organise the boat flipping crew …

Postscript

Having said that I was happy with the paint, a close look the following day revealed that there were still some small patches where the eggshell had not fully covered patches where I had sanded through the old paint to the substrate.

The Dulux eggshell claims to be "Self Undercoating", so I didn't bother to prime these patches. I should have known better!

So a third coat was applied and it looks much better now. Sometimes I have to remind myself that perfectionism is not my friend …