Spring cleaning
Painting the hull
How to:
Check the weather. Paint can’t dry in the rain.
Start at the bottom of the keel and work up. So you aren’t hunching under wet paint.
Work in patches: keel, bottom half of the underside, top half of the underside with rollers (the underside is too broad to paint with one roll), then finish with brush working top to bottom at the waterline.
You’ll wish you’d scraped better. Scrape better first.
You can add a second coat around rudder and waterline after 6 hours. It’s ready to put in water after 24 hours and must be in the water within 30 days.
Bring can of AF and brush for when you put her back in water - when she’s hanging in the straps, give a quick coat to the parts touching the vagga that didn’t get painted (bottom of keel and 4 points where vagga holds the boat).
Equipment:
Tarp
Gloves
Paint tray lined w foil
Rollers
Paintbrush for fine lines
Masking tape
Antifouling. Style Soft, color blue. Biltema costs half what Hjertmans does. 2.5L juuuuuust covers the boat - we will need more for when we put her back in the water. Get 2 cans next time.
Paint thinner. For when you accidentally get paint on the side eeek!
Rags for cleaning up
Yogurt container for paint thinner
Plastic bags for rags
Wax on
Equipment
Lots of rags, preferably different colors. Microfibre 12 pack at Biltema worked well.
Boat cleaner. Waterline boat cleaner from Biltema worked well.
Dishwashing gloves for boat cleaner
Boat polish.
Boat wax. (Rickard recommended Ultra Glozz Superpolish, he said one little red can covers the whole boat, then you don’t need separate polish and wax.
Buffer with wool pad for polish, cotton pad for wax.
Ladder, ideally 2
Bucket
How to
plan so you’re not waxing in direct sun. (Time of day, or cloudy day.) It took us about 3 hours to clean, polish and wax one side.
Ideally do this first before painting. So you clean to the waterline and don’t have to worry about removing the tape or wet paint.
Divide into sections you can reach from the ladder in 1 position. Mark with masking tape on the rubber border.
Clean with boat cleaner and a sponge by hand. Rinse off with water from your bucket. Wear gloves.
Add polish to rag, apply coat to boat. Let sit until film forms. Buff with clean wool orbital.
Add wax to rag, apply coat to boat. Let sit until film forms. Buff with cotton orbital.
Teak
Equipment
Borrow electric sander from Thomas
Sanding block
Sandpaper: 80 rough, 120 fine
Rags
Teak oil
Tarp for working
How to
Clean and sand hatch doors, cockpit floor, door trim, tiller.
(Look inside the boat for anything there we need to oil- table, cabinets.)
Clean to remove dust from sanding.
Oil cloth and apply to teak. Leave in for 40 mins, wipe to remove excess.
I learned a few things :)