Thursday 19 May 2016

A little colour

With a couple of days off work and a reasonable forecast, we moved ten minutes out of the marina and set up camp in a quiet spot for some serious painting.

The first day saw some action with the grinder, removing all the flaky paint and rust.  I found that the twisted wire brush worked well on the paint, while 24 grit discs were the weapon of choice on the rust.  All exposed rust patches were coated in Vactan then primed.




The colour scheme will be cream with black panels on the sides so the next step was to get two coats of black gloss on below the gunnel and lay on some cream for the edges on the sides




There is still a lot to do but all the nasty dirty work is completed.  The Tractol paint is going on really well.  Its not the glossiest paint in the world but is easy to use and has a good depth of colour.  It would be difficult to get a showroom finish on this old boat without a huge amount of work so I'll happily settle for a 'ten yard' finish.  My main objective was to treat the rusty bits and give her a few more years on the water.

Monday 9 May 2016

A little more on the bathroom

Work is progressing slowly on in the bathroom.  The poo tank is gone.  This was a surprisingly easy task.  I simply gaffa taped up all the holes, up ended it and dragged it out.  The lower walls have been covered with the red sparkly panels left over from the shower and the floor is down.




I am using a cut down kitchen base unit to sit the sink on and have ordered a waterless/composting toilet kit from Off Grid Designs