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All things considered, it's not too bad. Aggravating, but relatively minor. Here are the pics:

Well, the varnish still looks fabulous!

bah. An hour's whittling with a decent chisel will smooth the rough edges. Slap on some varnish just to seal it and go sailing. Summer is too short.

Even with your battle scars, both you and Tim have among the finest girls in the Triton fleet. Mike is right; your summers are too short, enjoy the sailing while you can - just pack a bit more rum and stay in the cockpit (out of sight of your, thankfully minor, damage).

Any news of Gracie, the claret Triton Clint mentioned?

Ouch !! And on a new paint job too ... makes me shudder. My condolances.

Peter wrote:Ouch !! And on a new paint job too ... makes me shudder. My condolances.

Yeah, that's the real drag of the whole thing. I never even got to see her with the sun shining!

In the long run it'll be fine though. There are a couple of thin spots in other areas on the boat, so another coat overall won't hurt. And since all the prep is done (save the repair work) it should be relatively simple to sand and repaint.

And since all the prep is done (save the repair work) it should be relatively simple to sand and repaint.

I had to smile as I read that commment (as awful as it is that your paint job took a hit before you even really got to enjoy it), because it made me think of how things go when you get into boat projects.

I mean, my first boat *only needed* a "fair, sand, and paint" job, and it seemed like a huge project, the results barely attainable. The next one, quite a bit of glassing, then a paint job; the next one, some core work, some glassing.... Now I'm looking at boats that ... sigh.

In the end you get to the point where the paint job that once seemed such a huge project is "relatively simple."

Thank goodness for this board, where people like us (okay, just speaking for myself here) can feel so ... normal :-)

We'll just have to see a few photos of your boat taken from the aft quarter, with its gorgeous, green/black self gleaming in the late-afternoon sun -- my favorite angle for Tritons anyway :-)

Glad "Dasein" came through so well, considering the terrible weather.

--- Rachel

Well, it took two seasons, but the repair is done. As some may recall, I managed to fill/fair and prime the repair this spring, but rain kept me from getting topcoat on.

The repair is OK. It's not too noticeable from 10 or 15 feet. I masked and sprayed 4 coats with a Preval sprayer. These things are OK, but not really a fine finishing tool! There's some orange peel.

Repair masked off


After the first coat


DUN. (The weird lines are camera artifacts... my Canon is on its last legs)

Looks good to me!

-Britton

At least it is green now.

Nice. :)

Nathan,

I'm about to paint over a couple of scars, and I wonder if I might pick your brain first.
Did you not prime over your filler?
The alexseal literature mentions a "reducer fog" technique to aid the blending of the repair with the existing. Did you bother?
What other measures did you take to get the new to blend into the old? wetsand and polish?

Thanks

The off white you see in the first pic is primer.

I did nothing special. I thinned the paint very well. (Max suggested plus a little for good measure) and sort of let the paint feather in to the edges. Used a Preval sprayer. I did not buff, wetsand, or any of that. While the buffing procedure that Tim used on the daysailor transom looked good, it did not look exactly the same as the existing paint on the sides. Since it was on the transom with that hard edge it was virtualy unnoticeable, but I feared that it wouldn't look good in the middle of a field of existing paint, if you follow.

The tiny dings and chips I filled in with a brush.

If there was ever a next time, I might seriously consider just using a brush. Of course I wanted to get this done in one day, so a brush was out.