Well, ok, not disaster, but yesterday wasn't a good day. Saturday, we put on coat three of the finish coat and it came out beautiful - smooth, run free (well, a couple of very small ones), the way it was supposed to, but with some show through, which was expected. However, the overnight dew caused some loss of gloss in a few places. Since that wasn't the last coat, I wasn't worried about it.
So Sunday, we started on what was to be the final coat. Well, the paint wouldn't flow, we got orange peel, it was just not going well. The only difference was that the day was sunny - the day prior had been mild, but cloudy and that caused the paint to set up entirely differently. The end result was disastrous.
Today I called the Interlux technical people for advice, and gave them the scenario. They told me what they thought I should do differently, so tomorrow, we'll be back at it again. I'll get into the details in my next post.
All in all tho, it's coming well and the boat is looking good - just not as good as it will!
Just stumbled on this blog. A good friend and I used to have a small yard in Fort Lauderdale and we painted plenty of boats in our time. Our philosophy of boat painting can easily be summed up as "essentially it's just a wide stripe."
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