Having had a week away doing my own boat in the North West of England, it was time to come back to continue on with the preparations for repainting the hull, having before I went away, I, DAed sanded the main part of the Hull to key up the surface of the hull to apply the hi-build epoxy primer too. It was time to sort out the waterline area and the toe rail region. The waterline was a straightforward job. However, the toe rail area was a different job.
Because of the construction of the deck to hull was a lip joint, that is to say that the hull as a lip that run the whole length of the hull and is 3 inches wide so that the deck/cabin moulding sits on the lip and is bolted through the flange with M10 bolts and nyloc nuts and large penny washers after it is bedded down on a sealant compound to make it watertight. It then had an aluminium toe rail itself bolted through the deck joint for good measure.
This then left a gap between the toe rail and the hull which needs to be cleaned out so that when the epoxy primer is applied to the hull under the toe rail it will adhere to the hull and not be contaminated with any remaining sealant in the gap between the toe rail and the hull.
So this is the job I am undertaking at the moment a bit of a slow however necessary job to ensure the paint adheres to the hull.
Once I have finished that job it will be on to the decks to apply thickened epoxy to the deck where there are areas of damage gelcoat which has already had a first coat of hi-build epoxy primer applied too, So that once the thickened epoxy as cured the whole deck can be recoated with the second coat of Hi-build epoxy primer and any small areas can be filled and fair until we have smooth and fair deck once more.
So tomorrow it is back to the toe rail to hull joint and continue to clean out the gap until I have done the whole of the joint.
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