Job of the Day: Prepping and priming the decks
The decks on the boat are particularly damaged, and require completely stripping.
Today, the weather was good enough to get a full day in.
At 9 o’clock in the morning, I set out with screwdriver in hand and scrubbing brush in other, 1st job – to remove the fittings and sugar-soap the existing paintwork.
Prepping
Sugar-soaping gets rid of the film of grime and makes the surface more adherent to future paint.
It also revealed the full extent of the rust.
Here’s what the stern looked like.
It’s quite heavily corroded, the brown areas are areas of rust.
Rather than mess around with this in any way, I decided to simply get rid of all the paint and start from scratch. …