Priming & painting the interior

After a lot of sanding, I primed the interior with Rustoleum 7780 primer.

And the rest primed

Priming took a long time. About 5 hours.
I broke the painting up into smaller jobs.

It all turned out very well. Here are the finished shots of the boat. I'm very pleased with the color scheme.

EasyPoxy Sandtone interior

Easypoxy burgundy hull and off-white deck

front view

Installed the nav light

transom

3/4 view

transom with rudder and motor mounts

interior

3/4 shot outside

portlight and ipe trim

transom

Need to add hatches

Slow progress, but some paint is on

I've been very busy, but have found some time to prime the exterior.

Primer

Primer on the transom

Primer on the cabin

I did get one coat of off-white on the deck (no good pictures) and a coat of burgundy on the hull.

burgundy hull

burgundy hull, off white deck

I'm using Pettit Easypoxy on the entire boat. I used my coloring book pages and a paint program to attempt to get the right colors. The colors didn't match quite right, but I'm pleased with the colors out of the can. I'll have to do at least one more coat and probably two more before I am done.

Making progress; starting to paint

This weekend I took down the garage dust tent. I can roll the trailer and the boat outside and make sanding dust there.
That should help to have a clean dust free garage for painting.

Saturday I spent hours sanding the exterior with 120. It resulted in a nice dull black with just a few sand-throughs. But sand-throughs only went down to the next layer, not down to the wood. I didn't get any pictures of the sanding. It resulted in a lot of dust.

I also painted on the boot stripe

Here she is Sunday outside after I sanded off the slightly 410-thickened epoxy I had painted on all interior surfaces.

sanded and boot stripe painted

The other side

close up of the stern boot stripe.

A view inside.

I really like how sanding with 120 turns the finish dull. It's fairly easy to see where you need to do some extra sanding or fill low spots.

I did sand through some areas on the interior. Tonight I recoated those. I'll scrape and sand them later and then I can start in on full painting.

It was good to paint the boot stripe as an experiment. I need to learn to paint on thin layers. The boot stripe has some areas where the pain cracked & spidered a bit. I believe it hadn't completed curing quite yet. I'll wait a few more days and sand it down before a recoat.