Captains Dog September 2009

The plan is this...

1. Give the shell 2 full coats of Phosphate primer. This will help protect the metal and is quite good active anti-rust.
2. Give the shell another couple of coats of blacking. Easier to do now, while it is out of the water.
3. Once happy with the grey shell, and all holes etc are cut, and primed, give the whole shell a coat of Red Oxide. This is a coarser primer, and will give a better key to the top coats.
4. Start with 2 coats of undercoat. I have decided on a two colour scheme, so the undercoats will be the first stage where I decide where the different colours are.
5. Seal the windows, and get on with the remaining fit-out.
6. Once most of the major work is out of the way, two coats of top coat, piping and lettering.
7. Dump it in the water, and its launch party time...
   
   

There, I have a plan, We are heading into winter, what could possibly go wrong...

Last week in September Lady P found a sunny day and (with the help of the puppies) put a coat of grey primer on the roof. The problem then is, when all of one area is the same colour you can see just how bad all the welds are finished. So, I waited until she left, and got the grinder out. Oops, made a mess of the nice shiny roof. A quick lick of paint and she'll never know.

Handy Andy finally turned up to measure up for a set of Hardwood front doors. Decided to go for a hardwood hatch as well. I got these "ball bearing transfer units" from t'internet which will make the hatch slide beautifully.