Our summer is already winding down on Fishers Hornpipe. Here is picture of Joe, fresh off the plane from Europe. He built and installed an engine cover for Twinkie, which is ready for him to come back and put on a coat of paint or two.
Here is Mac rolling on barrier coat to the hull below the water line. We used an expensive and toxic two part epoxy barrier coat to seal the concrete hull and provide a primer for bottom paint. We put three coats below the waterline and one coat above the waterline. We even covered the deck with a coat of barrier coat.
Here is Nadine starting to roll on the ablative bottom paint. The bottom paint is the final coat for th hull below the waterline. It looks nice and clean, though slightly bumpy, with dark red bottom paint.
Here is a picture of the stern with the bottom paint rolled on and the white barrier coat primer on the topside. Blue tape is covering the waterline are that will eventually be a grey or black boot stripe. After a lot of testing, searching, and advice from the experts, we have decided to paint the hull white instead of dark blue.
We are headed down to RI for a couple more days of painting and wrapup work before we head out for the Bahamas. We will post a final set of pictures of our finished product for the summer.
