After a long interruption due to miserable weather, we were finally able to turn the vaka hull rightside up for painting deck and cockpit.
We then cleaned the shop and put the boat in again.
Total work time to date: 744 hours
Diary on the construction of a Seaclipper 20, a plywood trimaran designed by Jim Brown and John Marples. Our boat's Sail No. is 50. The boat has been named GEODETICA and was launched on september 28th, 2024.
Saturday, January 30, 2021
Sunday, December 6, 2020
Vaka hull painting completed
Today we removed the masking tape and the plastic sheets protecting the graphite bottom.
Friday, December 4, 2020
Vaka hull: second coat of enamel
Two hours of work today to give the vaka hull the second coat of enamel. We first gave the hull a light scrub with 240 grit sandpaper and then cleaned the dust.
We will wait for the paint to dry and turn the hull rightside up for painting deck and cockpit.
Total work time to date: 743 hours
Saturday, November 28, 2020
Vaka hull: first coat of enamel
3 hours of work today to give the hull a first coat of paint.
We started giving a light scuff with 240 grit to the primer, and removed the dust with an anti static cloth.
Then we prepared almost 0.6 liters of Boero Altura TC one part polyurethane paint diluted about 7% with Boero 703 thinner, and painted with a short hair roll
In the past weeks we had made repairs to the misterious defective spots in the primed surface, by sanding and recoating. This will remain a mistery.
Total work time to date: 741 hours
Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Vaka hull: second coat of primer
Two hours today for the second coat of primer:
We noticed a very strange effect when coating the port side of the hull which we cannot explain: we will sand it when dry and recoat it
Total work time to date: 737 hours
Sunday, November 8, 2020
Vaka hull: first coat of primer
Two hours of work today. We gave the aka hull the first coat of primer (Boero Giano + 10% Boero 703 thinner) with a short hair roller. Here's the situation half way through
and here it is completed
Total work time to date: 735 hours
Saturday, November 7, 2020
Preparing the vaka hull for painting
Two hours of work today. We sanded the graphite coating to a feather edge on the hull panels; put masking tape all around the edge making sure that the primer will cover about 1 cm of the graphite coating; protected the newly coated bottom with plastic; lightly sanded the whole hull with 240 grit, and cleaned the boat. Next time we will give the first coat of primer.
Total work time to date: 733 hours
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