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

Weather was out or what I would wish. Drizzle rain time to time, so my tent was very useful.
Due to overcoat time for the paint that temperature 8-48 hours. I had choice to paint on Sunday or Monday, but Monday was not a choice due to work. So, I had to use not good day for painting and realize the gloss may appear not so nice as it could be. However for the deck it maybe not the bad ;-)
In the morning we found the water drips on transom top. They made some mat imprints on paint. Likely we had some light rain right we left dock after first coat was placed. To protect back of the boat from rain, I put additional tarp over the back. and also added duct tape in between tarps to minimize water ingress.
Light sands on obvious paint runs.
Second coat of paint. [Short 4 words, but a lot of work to put paint coat over 34 ft boat cabin, cockpit and deck.

Several pictures in progress. No a lot of shiny pictures due to work goes under tent.

Hidden "perfection" ;-)

Light in end of tunnel.

Cockpit painted. Hatches removed and will be processed later.

Day four

At day 4 we had thunderstorm and shower at lake area. So i decided to check how all is going there because I left companionway hatch open and my "tent" has top of the roof without cover.

When I came to boat at about 6PM I did not find a lot of water in cabin, just a little, I was able to clean it with t-shirt size rug.

In several places i found water drips, but looks like paint get set before the rain. so no marks on paint under them.

I removed harp from transom to provide some air movement under tent.

Took off majority of masking tape. It was good time due to paint is set, but still not gardened completely.

More pictures

Transom top still have some evidences of drips i had on first coat. Likely i need to sand it and repaint. It is very visible area, and i want it be excellent.