Compartments sanded, primed, and painted

After spending more hours than were fun sanding all kinds of small little areas in the watertight compartments I got them primed and painted.  Since these areas will be covered by decks, I just needed to give the surface a good roughing.  I didn't worry about getting it smooth and fair.  It's obvious where the fiberglass tape is. Given how much time and effort it took, I'm not looking forward to fairing and smoothing the cockpit.  It's going to take a bunch of time and effort.

Upright again

It's back upright and ready to be finished off.  First up is sanding and painting the watertight areas.  I'm not planning on doing much to fair them smooth as they will be covered by a deck and only accessible through small hatches.

The hulls is painted...maybe.

After priming, sanding, and priming some more, it was time to throw on some paint.

I rolled and tipped 3 coats.   Despite thinning with water and using a paint conditioner I still ended up with brush marks.  Maybe it was the paint, maybe it was the brush, maybe it was that it was nearly impossible to keep a wet edge.  The paint dries so quick it just doesn't have much time to level.  I am really happy with the amount of sheen.  semigloss was the right way to go.

I am going to let it set for a few days and see about sanding it with some fine sandpaper and putting on an overly thinned coat.  I'm hoping to be able to get it smoother, but if I can't it's not a bad paint job to live with.

Starting to paint

As the keel runner and skeg will be the first thing to touch during beaching, inadvertent grounding, and trailering I decided to add some protection to the wood.  I opted to throw on a layer of glass.

I decided to use the 6oz woven sheet rather than the 12oz biaxial tape, as the tape was too stiff to wrap around the sides of the keel runner.

It turns out, the 6oz woven stuff didn't wrap around the corner so well either.  The edges of the tape lifted, necessitating cutting it off.  I would have been better off just using thickened epoxy.  Live and learn.  It took a couple of iterations to get it all smoothed out and ready for paint. 

I put on 3 coats primer today.  The results aren't all that great.   The primer was fairly transparent, didn't self level very well, and dried so quick that I couldn't get the thickness all that even.  It's cheap primer, so this may be a case of get what you pay for.  Since it's just the primer coat I wasn't to worried about getting it just right.  I'll sand it smooth and see if I need another coat.  I used some paint conditioner, but will need to thin the paint significantly if it behaves in a similar manner.  I'm hoping I can get the paint to dry slower and self level better.