Almost-A-SCAMP Progress Report #2-12C . . . .

[Charles Brennan]

1st top coat of Hatteras Off White, on the spars.
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All the way down the length of the mast!!    Forgot to mask off the mast head, which should be black.  DOHHH!!! 
Oh, well. I can always mask off the top half of the mast and paint the mast head, later. 
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A critical eye will see the splotches, typical of a first coat of spray paint.
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(At least, my critical eye did!) 

2nd coat was a little better.
Using a bungee cord to separate the mast and boom enough for me to get  in there and work, without gluing the back of my tee shirt to the spar behind me. 
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   DAMHIKT. 

More gloss, less splotch!! 
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Third coat's charm! 
Looks like the kind of mast, some people would pay money for!! 
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Not me, of course. 
Not as long as begging, still works!! 

Revisiting a previous side-project.  These are boards that bridge the bench seats for sleeping/camping. The EZ Poxy dripped around the edges and made a mess on the opposite side, which was promptly sanded off.
Did not want to open up a can of paint until I was doing the hull, so now is the time to finish the final touch up on the bench bridge boards.
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Shown here prior to applying new paint to the boards and the first top coat to the second grate.
Second grate?!? 
I DONWANNA TALK ABOUT IT!!! 
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After last touch-up coat.
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And 2nd coat on grate and main sheet athwartships cleat.  (1st side.)
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And third coat.  Ready to flip over and start in on the other side.
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Also did more touch-up on some random pieces, that needed just a little more finessing.
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The mast partner at lower left, got its first coat of Hatteras Off White.

Finally!!    First top coat of Hatteras Cream on the hull.
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And the obligatory Kamikaze Love Bug.    (They brush off when the paint is dry.)
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The interior facing aft:
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And facing forward, showing the veranda.
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Anybody says this is a small dinghy, should be forced to paint it first,    and then render their opinion again. 

The roof is going to be a different color; Grand Banks Beige, same as the bottom of the hull.
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And the cabin roof eye brow and the coaming rails will both be Sea Foam, same as the hull sides. 
(Based on suggestions from my wife and daughter, who thought that Hatteras Cream Everything was a little too monochromatic, for their delicate sensibilities.) 
We'll be a while getting to that, since I need time for the paint to cure hard, so I can apply masking tape and then mask off for all the non-skid areas, hither and yon.
After the non-skid is down, I can do the last two top coats.

Christmas Day, I snuck out to the garage briefly, for a quick side-project.  Some years ago,  I had bought an antique fiberglass fishing pole for 5 bucks, that had a busted reel seat and trashed line guides.
I didn't really care, since my goal was to use it as a kayak sand stake to anchor the kayak temporarily, for fishing.
Then I came up with a better anchor arrangement for the kayak and abandoned the project; so it was more than ripe for re-purposing by sawing off the handle and sanding off the guide wrapping threads.
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Any Old Salts out there, have any idea what this might end up becoming?!? 

The next day I started  masking off the hull for adding non-skid to the decks and added hardware masking.
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In this case, the clam cleat for the anchor painters down by the stern.
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Masked off fairly large deck areas, more so than most SCAMP projects, but I know how much I walk around all over boats that I sail. 
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Also decided to mask off the cabin roof for non-skid, something that almost none of the other SCAMP builders do, for reasons that totally mystify me. 
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What NONE of the SCAMP blogs ever tell you about adding non-skid is: HOW TO APPLY  IT! 
Came up with my own solution:
Several layers of screening to make the world's most expensive salt shaker. 
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Worked pretty good!
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Lay down a coat of paint . . . .
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Then add the non-skid.  Went down far more uniformly than I first feared, thanks to the shaker applicator. 
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Did the transom cap while I already had everything out, anyway.
Port side.
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Starboard side:
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Foot well:
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It still gives me a bit of a start, seeing boat colors I first envisioned a year and a half ago, now standing there right in front of me, in the car port. 
Yes, I AM becoming the least bit excited!! 
This project is really beginning to feel like the Real Deal!! 

Charles Brennan

[Jim B., CD-25]

Definitely the REAL DEAL!  There are a bunch of us out here who are excited for you!

[Riley Smith]

She's looking GREAT!!!

On a side note (and I hadn't thought of this fact in a long time) when we were re-doing the old house, the major/ never-ending/ start-t0-stop job was sanding. In the long run, we'd have been better advised to do a blast of the whole interior instead of sanding because after all, the place was in ruins. Which in the eddys and currents of those moments, we were overloaded to the max and didn't realize it. SO...what are we sanding on TODAY??? That became the morning ritual and primarily involved with it was a Makita orbital sander. With 60 grit, to take it OFF. That one sander ran for TWO SOLID YEARS doing that. Every day. Best money for a tool I've ever seen spent.

[Noemi - Ensenada 20]

I do like Makitas.

[Ed]

Looking Good!  I'm going to match the blue stripe under the gunnel on the light blue topsides paint when I pull Urchin in March to prepare for either the FL120 or BEER Cruise.  I'll keep the same pattern and hopefully paint the white and blue topsides afresh.  My question for you Charles is if you are using a hardener like Pettit EZ-Poxy Topside Finish Performance Enhancer? Looks like it calls for a 16:1 ratio, which is a lot less than the 8:1 recommended for Rustoleum marine. When I painted my Sea Pearl Tri, actually Becky did the roll and tip thing, since the Chief don't paint, I used a generic hardener and it held up well.

[Charles Brennan]

ED, I did indeed use, the EZ-Poxy Performance Enhancer on the sheer stripe, on the second coat.  It flows quite well and gives more time to match the "wet edge" and has noticeably more gloss and leveling.  Do not add more than the recommended additive ratio, as it will drip quite easily. DAMHIKT.  Both sheer stripe coats were rolled and tipped.
We did not use the performance enhancer on the white topsides and hull, since we were spraying it and the instructions expressly mention how toxic a stunt that is,    even with external air supply face masks.
The light blue decks and cockpit were painted with Interlux Interdeck non-skid in Squall Blue, which alas, is no longer manufactured by International Paints. 

EZ-Poxy wasted no time matching discontinued paint colors from several vintage sailboats and their Light Blue, (3210)  is very close in color to the color on the Windrose, assuming you wish to continue the color scheme.
Here is a link:
https://www.facebook.com/PettitPaint/videos/1183439002946902/

P.S. Why don't you post the videos from the weekend that you took, over here? 
TSBB is DYING for more content!
THROW  US A BONE, MAN!! 

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1191536929207940
(Really does my heart good, to see the boat live on and get used.) 

Hope this helps,
Charles Brennan