There is a guy on a kayaking forum asking about what primer to use. I thought of you and the primer you said you used on Irish Pendant.
I just got back from the club. We spent the morning doing capsize recoveries of the Flying Scots we race. I enjoy doing them. here are a few old photos of the process.
It takes 2 to get it over leaning out hanging onto the shroud.
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One of us heads out to the mast top to keep the boat from turtling, and the other climbs up and over to stand close to the boat on the centerboard.
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Then waits for the other to come to the boat and lay out on the seat in the boat before walking out on the centerboard to bring the boat up. You can see the seat is vertical and the side close to the water. It is easy to get on the boat and lay along the seatback.
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The mast has come up out of the water. Just before this point if you time it right you can throw a leg over the side and end up in the boat when it rights itself. I have yet to master that as I tend to wait to be sure the boat will come up which means I'm too late.
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Here you can see the man in the boat and my head as I ride the boat down into the water.
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I now have to climb aboard.
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Doug, Since I was intending to use the Pettit family of one-part polyurethane finishes, I used Pettit EZ Prime 6149 high-build primer. I have since learned on the various SCAMP forums that if you use the EZ-Primer, you can use most any exterior paint. (Rustoleum, Sherwin Williams, what-have-you.) I used Pettit polyurethanes, because of the colors I (and my family) wanted.
A high-build primer is very forgiving of mistakes, digs, dings, sanding marks, and gouges, especially if you use two coats.
Here's a link:
https://defender.com/en_us/pettit-ez-prime-multipurpose-topside-primer?utm_id=143783458262&utm_campaign=19735474067&utm_source=google&utm_medium=paid&utm_content=649599978904&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=19735474067&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI2rTaltuWlQMV_3R_AB1FUBsWEAQYAiABEgImUfD_BwE#76=14&493=1965
The main "Gotchas" of application are:
1) Temperature.
2) Humidity.
3) Curing time.
Too cool and the humidity will be too high; perfect humidity and the temperature will likely be too high and you get terrible edge overlap marks.
When working on the Irish Pennant, my usual working time sweet spot, was 11 am to 3 PM. Much before that and the humidity wasn't right. Much later than 3pm and the paint wouldn't skin up fast enough, before the evening humidity set in. :P
Always waited a full day before any successive coat.
If I got rain at any time in that following day, I would wait an additional day.
I regarded a finish as "cured" properly, if I could gouge my thumbnail in the paint and not leave a dent.
When it's properly cured, it's very tough and hard.
I also learned to ignore obsessing over brush marks left in the paint, since they were going to get sanded smooth, anyway.
Sanded with 100 grit after the first coat of primer and used 120 grit after the second coat.
Were I to do it again, I might have gone with 150 grit after the second coat, but that requires more patience than I currently possess. :-[
Seemed to come out, OK!! ;D
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In most any negative reviews, the descriptions embedded in the review, invariably pointed to the application error. (e.g. applying two coats in one day, or working all day on paint prep and then painting, right before dark, etc.)
Hope this helps,
Charles Brennan
Doug. Very cool pic sequence in righting the boat.
Wondered if I was missing something, about the person righting the keel. Why do they have to climb to the top of the boat's side and then lower themselves down to the keel? ???
Wouldn't it be more expedient to simply duck under the hull, lift yourself up onto the keel from the water and grab the side of the hull and then start levering the hull upright? ???
As always, Curious Minds Want to Know!
Charles Brennan
I haven't tried to duck under a boat with my PFD on. I may have to try that sometime soon. I'm not sure you can reach the keel while in the water. It seems off the water at more than arm's length to me. I don't know the number...Voodoo! You would also need good arm strength to pull yourself up to the keel. Hanging on it in the water may not be enough to right it. The boat is wide and you may have it coming down on you. I just don't know. I assume that as long as these boats have been racing, they have probably tried that. This is how the racing fleet at the club trains us to do it. They have a lot more experience than I do.
In the six years I been at the club there hasn't been an FS capsize. It's hard to do. However, Tom and his wife from our club sailing in a regatta at another club on a boat that wasn't theirs did capsize in high winds (they weren't the only ones that day). The boat didn't have a mast float. She couldn't hold the mast up as it was pushing her under. It did turtle. All our racing boats are required to have them. When winds get to 15 knots or gusting higher than that we require them.
It isn't hard to climb up the open cockpit side. You put the first foot on the side stay, the second on the seat back, and the third at the base of the mast. Then you swing your leg over the gunnel. It is actually fairly quick to do. You have to wait for the person at the masthead to come and get in the boat before you begin to right it. which takes at least as much time as the climb. Moving through water in a PFD isn't fast. If you don't have a float at the top of the sail you run the risk of a turtle. Not and easy boat to right when that happens. So, one should tend to that right away. When done to perfection both will be in the boat when it comes up. I haven't made perfect yet. ;D
The MC Scow fleet were also practicing today. They have two keels, but you don't pull or step on them as they will take a bend you have to throw a righting rope over the hull from the gunnel in the water. Then go around to the keel and put both feet on the hull and stretch and lean out horizontally and hand over hand the rope to get that boat up.
I believe that this response by the fellow on the kayak forum should go to you and your thoughtful effort at my asking. I too learned from it, so you also get my thanks.
"Thanks for the thoughtful response. I'll keep an eye on the humidity. I live in western Washington state on Puget Sound."