a labor of love. Fine job, Pierre.
I well remember my great-uncle Cecil's reply to my mother's anguish at my dad's comparative aptitude for house vs. boat painting and brightwork. He explained to her that a boat's easy motion was much more conducive to fine brush-work...
~Thud~
She still remembers that.
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Pierre Gremaud
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- Joined: Feb 7th, '05, 15:46
- Location: CD 25 #146, Pin-Up and Sabre 36, Grayce, Belhaven, NC
waterline
Thank you all for your comments (I was surprised to see that posting reemerge).
Regarding the waterline: before I started the work, there was no waterline per se and the bottom paint was reaching very unevenly up the topsides.
After a lot of sanding through several layers of paints, I reached the original waterline. After sanding that, the line was still barely visible on the naked hull (you can kind of guess it if you blink looking at the first picture). So that part was easy in my case; cleaning myself up so that I stopped looking like a barnacle proofed smurf was much harder.
Pierre
CD 25 #146
Washington, NC
Regarding the waterline: before I started the work, there was no waterline per se and the bottom paint was reaching very unevenly up the topsides.
After a lot of sanding through several layers of paints, I reached the original waterline. After sanding that, the line was still barely visible on the naked hull (you can kind of guess it if you blink looking at the first picture). So that part was easy in my case; cleaning myself up so that I stopped looking like a barnacle proofed smurf was much harder.
Pierre
CD 25 #146
Washington, NC