Painting

This step has been long-awaited! This is a fairly simple project, but it seems like it's gone on for a very long time.

The bottoms got their first coat of white. The plan is to have the bilge planks white, the vertical sides red, and the decks either blue or sand—we'll see. I like to put down a coat or two of white under any colour, to make it more brilliant. The amas will be white with a red stripe under the gunnel. If I have enough red, I'll also put it on the bottom plank—there's not much left over from Firefly, so I might need to buy another quart. I'm using Pettit's "Easypoxy". It goes on beautifully with the little foam rollers.

Seagull dreams on sunny rock amid gentle wavelets.