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Usually, it's Mike (Figment) who dredges up the ancient threads and makes a wise comment about one thing or another, often months (or even years) after the fact.

Mike, your number's up. The tables are turned.

After last spring's painting project, you posted this.

Figment wrote:

One hitch, though. The hull and the boatstands now clash. I'm going to have to repaint them again before the fall.

I seem to remember during my visit this January that the stands had not in fact been repainted and still clashed with your hull. It just ruined the whole experience for me.

Some people.

(I was actually searching for your deck painting project, but stumbled upon and decided to read your hull paint thread instead.)

I agree, that looks unforgivably awful.

I'm surprised the shed doors are open and the clash of colors is visible to innocent passerby. I'm canceling my trip to Long Island.

Looks like day-old guacamole. Or something... hehe

Hey, the "yesterday's guacamole" comment was intended to be complimentary! I really do dig that color, as it represents in that pic.

It's so entertaining what one stumbles across when performing an otherwise perfectly legitimate search! What could you possibly have been looking to glean from my just-get-it-done-already brightsides paintjob?
At least now you might not think that I do this thread-dredging purely for my own amusement. As a point of technique, however; true thread-dredging requires that one post in the old/dead thread so that the whooooole thing resurfaces.

Sadly the color shift of the boatstands was omitted from the Winter Worklist. tsk tsk. I'll be sure to do a schloppy job of bottom painting this spring so that they're not entirely blue anymore. I was hoping that the accumulated dust would have let me slip under the radar, but such hopes are always in vain when eagle-eye tim is in town.

wait.... something occurred to me.

Am I to understand that you taunt in my general direction?

Nay! I fffffart in your general direction! Your mother was a hampster etc. etc. Now go a-way or I shall taunt you a second time!

By the way: from what project was that awful iridescent spray blue on your stands left over, anyway? And everyone knows the tops are supposed to be orange. Sheesh.

Figment wrote:At least now you might not think that I do this thread-dredging purely for my own amusement.

Perhaps not, but the amusement factor is certainly a good side benefit!

Figment wrote:What could you possibly have been looking to glean from my just-get-it-done-already brightsides paintjob?

Curiosity, coupled with time on my hands on a Sunday afternoon.

Figment wrote:As a point of technique, however; true thread-dredging requires that one post in the old/dead thread so that the whooooole thing resurfaces.

Oh, I'll leave that to the true experts. A man's got to know his limitations. Baby steps.

Spray? SPRAY? pfffft!
I'll have you know that those stands received the full benefit of my brush-painting skills. (I've got mad skillllllz)
Oh lord only knows what the original project was. My father probably tried to use it as engine paint on the chrysler in his old Luhrs. If you ever had a peek into the "back room" of that warehouse, your eyeballs would melt from their sockets. The term "pack rat" cannot begin to describe a guy who truly is a "Pack R.O.U.S.".
You probably don't remember, but on your left as you came around the warehouse (past the boathauling trailer) was a broken down old grey trailer. It's full of furnace parts leftover from the HVAC business he sold in 1988.

Of course the stands would be faster if the tops were orange, but I'm trying to always remember that this is a CRUISING boat.

Figment wrote:... on your left as you came around the warehouse (past the boathauling trailer) was a broken down old grey trailer. It's full of furnace parts leftover from the HVAC business he sold in 1988.

That is some impressive pack-ratting! Sounds like the kind of thing that makes a less serious case run home and start pitching things, for fear of becoming "like that."

--- R.

PS: E-bay? I've seen real horders "get the fever" after their first auction heats up.