Thread: Finishing a Yellowtail

It must be time for a bit of an update.

We sprayed her this morning. I'd done a roller / brush undercoat followed by another guide coat a while back, but sanded most of that off. We'd booked the weather and the footpath spray booth for this morning, so....

here's Bazza half way along the starboard side



and here she is finished. Well, undercoated....



She's done with Sterling Lacquer's high build two pack epoxy primer. Next step is another guide coat and some 400 wet and dry... and the two-pack poly.... which might just need a better spray booth.

I forgot to mention... we used a CIG Handi Sprayer (or some similar name) that I bought two or three years ago to use in painting inside the lazarette on my 50'er... but hadn't got around to using. Its a HVLP spray unit.... cost under a couple of hundred bucks IIRC, and I never thought it would amount to much. Bazza was here the other day and we were talking about how useless another friend's undercoat gun was, I mentioned I had it, we broke the wrapper off and tried it with some water.... fabulous. It worked an absolute treat.

it's funny i was thinking about how your yellowtail was coming along the other day when i was out fishing in mine (probably for the last time this season, she needs to come up in the next few weeks) we've already had two autumn storms come through

so how long now till she hits the wet stuff? she can't be far off now

Not sure how long.... depends on the weather and the clients, although I can always sneak out and do an hour or two on the boat as long as you or I don't tell anyone.

Once I get the finish coat on, its the entire internal fitout from the second bulkhead back. Maybe you can tell me how long?

I was browsing through them yesterday and saw it's identical twin otherwise.She's much more of a silk purse now though,good to see some more progress.
Cheers,
Dave.

White one day, black the next....

Here she is today, with a fresh coat of three buck spray black.... 400 grit wet and dry sanded back to the slot....




I went through the undercoat in a couple of spots, nothing major .... but this is all about getting her smooth. Still to decide whether I re-undercoat or not. The black comma up for'ard is a spot in the camera... damn Nikon for not allowing self-cleaning in the D100...

Here's a close-up of the guide coat sanding in progress....



A couple of those proud white areas in the photo are pinholes that I filled yesterday... I mixed a bit of undercoat (2 pack epoxy high build Sterling) and some nice scented Johnson's baby talc..... and did the old finger application technique to the boat.... damn those things are hard to find at times.