Vira - Sailboat rebuild, Irwin Citation 34

 Weather fun. Today morning we had several minutes gust up to 76mi/h on the marina. docks was drugged good 50ft and pushed to the cove wall. Fortunately no boats was docked there.  Walk bridge bent Here is no water any more  between docks and rocks My "paint booth" destroyed. Dock twisted 30 degrees  to horizon   And bonus pictures  

Picture of the day Cabin top no-skid surface finished.    Navigation  Installed IMU on gimbled mount. (small black box)      Deck  Day 147 Cabin top Kiwigrip no-skid applied. Looks good.       Cockpit preparation. Ready to paint. Day 148 Took masking tape off. And put haches and covers on places. Cabin top looks great. Cockpit painting complete. (masking tape keep hatches closed)   An addition to original no-skid template i added pad on the top of transom. It was slippery to get back on the board. End of the day pictures Day 149. Deck sides preparation, sanding (surfacing) and masking taping. A lot of swatting. 28C and 98% humidity early morning and 34C with 80% RH closer to noon. No painting today due to weather conditions.  Deck ready for no-skid application.

Just nice picture  Cover open, glossy parts loos great, going to do no-skid.   Over the week we had couple thunderstorms and  cover has a ripped out in some places. looks like it was too hot for boat to sit under tent and it took blanket out ;-)   Deck Reinstalled companion way wood parts back using butyl tape.  Work at garage Painting hatches Pathched, double primed, sanded and applied first coat of Perfection paint. Deck prep for no-skid   Rolled up tent sides to get some air movement during work on deck. Sanded cabin top no-shid to cut diamond surface peaks (about 50% of height of it). Cleaned all, put masking tape and cut radius corners where needed. Sanded (just made surface) area rught next to masking tape.

 Deck Special thanks to my wife Maria for joining me and help with this last effort on cabin top and deck painting.  First day  Second primer layer sanding. Building frame for "painting tent" for case if dusty wind gets or rain starts. Second day Almost perfect day, about 25C temperature, most day partial cloudy, light wind. Finishing building tent. One  coat of Off-white Interlux Perfection paint. About 1.5 liter of paint used. First full quart mixed as one batch to paint cabin top and toe rails and step outside the cockpit. then mixed ~200 ml for cockpit, then mixed 200ml again.  We found using thick foam roller with firm press to paint and light press for bobbles poping and refinind surface working pretty well IF PAINT is not tinned too much. At temperature 24C I added only  15ml on 1quart (1.5%) of 2333N thinner  and it worked great. Couple pictures Me and cockpit  first coat. Cockpit and me Cockpit itself Big-big tent.   Third day Weathe...

 Deck Sanding second layer of primer. All looks better and better. But nothing to picture, just one more wet sanding (half)day.