David Tyler wrote:
This is all wonderful stuff, Annie, and an excellent demonstration of how, if one is going to build a boat, one should do it as a very individual expression of one's self and all that one has learned. "I did it my way" should be the boatbuilder's theme song.
But now I'm beginning to worry about how all this work is going to be protected from drips as the deck goes on?
Cloths, care, cleaning up quickly, comforting myself that repairing a bit of damage is still a lot less of an ordeal than leaving all the painting and varnishing to the end when I've pretty much run out of steam!! I'm already touching up damage here and there, but I still think it's worth finishing things off and hoping I don't damage it, rather than having to face painting the boat from one end to the other as one job!
However, my issue at the moment is that it's so HOT - and it's only December. I started varnishing at 0600 this morning and it was already nearly 20C: by 0900 it was 25C. I thought maybe I could wait until the end of the day when it would be cooler - but at 2000 it was still nearly 26C. So I guess it's a 5 o'clock start tomorrow! (I'm using two-part polyurethane and, to be honest, it's a bloody awful finish at present. I keep trying different techniques. If nothing else, there'll be plenty on by the time I've finished!!)