The Eynsham PocketShip

  I left the primer to harden for a few days and then started to sand it flat, using a P180 grit to remove brush marks followed by a P220 gr...

While painting the upper hull with primer I worked on the remaining components in parallel. This is the rudder taped for white primer. This ...

The happy and momentous day arrived when I completed the first coat of white primer to the upper hull. Here it is. Pretty patchy, as expecte...

At last the day came to apply primer to the upper half of the boat. It had been so long since I did this that I had forgotten how to do it, ...

  Way back last year when I started repainting the boat with Epifanes paint I made a test piece by finishing the upper drop board and leavin...

  I needed to mark up the rudder for paint before I started painting the hull, so I dry fitted it and used the laser level to mark up the bl...

  While preparing the topsides for paint I noticed a number of very small patches where I had somehow sanded through to the marine ply. Ther...