We were blessed with a sunny weekend so we decided to go ahead and start on the exterior painting. Since this was a spur of the moment decision we needed to spend the first two days prepping the boat. We sanded her down and pressure washed her.
Caterpillars are out in drives at the marina.
Mark spent most of Sunday on the actual painting. We didn't have any paint already purchased and it was a difficult decision to drive to Anacortes to West Marine to buy it. We needed two gallons of interlux Brightside paint which is $40/gallon more there than anywhere else online. But you need to make hay while the sun shines or something, better put, you need to paint the boat while the sun shines and in Washington, that isn't often so it was worth the extra money to get the paint right away rather than order it online for less but miss out on the sunny days.
She looks a million times better even after just the pressure wash.
Penelope lying in wet paint.
This dirty, gross cockpit, can't wait to see it all clean painted.
Finn playing swords with a wrench, which he eventually dropped through the cracks in the dock.
Good bye dirty white, hello new white. Interlux Brightside paint is a beautiful paint and covers so nice, we only need one coat.
The top freshly painted.
Hard to tell in the evening light but trust me, it looks great.
We only managed to get the top done and still have the sides and underneath to paint but with the move in date quickly approaching we need to move on to trampolines, lifelines and grey water drainage.
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