Just when we thought we were ready for paint...
Yes, we found more scraping that needed to take place. So after hand scraping the entire hull, we needed to scrape the entire topsides as well. This time we used a combination of hand held razor blades and commercial floor scrapers.
Unfortunately we only learned that the scraping needed to happen after Jeff had spent hours sanding and preparing the topsides. Only then did we start to see the hard edges popping up and when tested show the same ugly reality that the hull had.
After enlisting the help of an army of people, the boat was finally for real, ready for its first coat of primer! The primer coat went on great and felt so amazing to see the fruits of all that initial prep work!
After the primer was sprayed and set, Jeff went back to sanding, first with a DA then by hand with a long block. Jeff used a guide coat of Dykem bluing agent and rubbing alcohol, this was much faster and cleaner then the powdered black coat we used previous. The bluing agent made it so you could tell exactly where you had sanded and how deep to go. This went incredibly fast compared to the last go round and was extremely straight forward.
After the finial sanding was complete, we were able to once again hand the boat over to the paint shop guys and they took it from there!
We set up a time laps camera to show the progress and edited it down the best I could to give the feel for how the process went, from move in, initial sanding, having to scrape the top, primer, more sanding, paint, nonskid and moving out. It is all here. You can even see our kiddos popping in and out of the boat, being troupers through some very late nights. Enjoy!
So now here she is! After months of hard work, our beautiful Legacy!