Dan_Smullen wrote: ↑Sun May 01, 2022 8:20 pm
I took VT Jeff’s advice, and just spread the damn primer to “see what I’ve got.” It was the advice I needed to quit chasing little divots and such. I rolled a heavy coat of Inter Protect over surface sanded with only 60 grit, and sanded with 120 once dry. All feels smooth and any low spots I had missed were conspicuous, which I filled with Awl Fair, a beautiful product. It has the remarkable ability to stay in low spots as it’s spread with a rigid metal edge, and sands beautifully. I’m
Calling the cap ready for surfacing primer, but I think I’m putting this on hold to fiddle with the anchor locker hatch and mock up the console.
For what it’s worth … there are places your eye is drawn to on a boat and well worth fussing over … and then there are places where once one has added all the fittings, hard ware etc one wonders why on Earth one fussed over them.
The gunwales tend to show imperfections - but places that I really think I wasted a lot of time include the motorwell, anchor lockers, inside the console, the sides inside the boat (although I have shelves that break this up) ….
One thing I can say is once it’s on the water you tend to forget about the places that niggled you…
I agree wholeheartedly that putting primer down sooner rather than later will help you see where these places are.
It looks very nice and fair to me though. Well done