Yesterday Dave and I went down to the boat to put on the coat of paint that will adhere the sand to the deck. This will give the deck some traction when it is wet, which will be most of the time here in Juneau.
Dave's sister met us down there and we were all a little discouraged by the overall dirtiness of the deck considering she had thoroughly mopped just the afternoon before. Dave and I took some time to figure out how we were going to get the deck cleaned. Eventually we ended up on hands and knees crawling the whole deck and scrubbing it with towels and water.
After the deck dried we painted on a layer of bronze paint and spread the quartz sand on the wet paint. We'll be heading back today to sweep away any loose sand and apply the final layer of deck paint. Technically this is the last coat of paint. There are some areas that need touch up where we got some silver paint on the black, but that can even be done after we go back in the water.
~Misty~
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| Coat of bronze with sand |
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| Close up of the sand in the paint |
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| Walls etc. painted in silver; this color will be on the deck too |
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| Underside of the deck hatch covers. The topside will get a coat of paint and sand too |
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| Bottom painted in red and black |
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| Dave and Brian checking out the bottom paint |
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| Ding in the paint from a 2x4 that hit the side of the boat; we'll be touching that up before splashdown |
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