Category Archives: bottom paint

Of Failed Boat Sales and Mislaid Plans

By B.J. | Published March 22, 2021

I’ve not updated the blog in well, forever, because life has been…mundane with not very much sailing. We’ve been in New Zealand since before the pandemic, and life here has been mostly normal since the virus isn’t out of hand. Weekly poker games, lunches with friends, boat work, and other Read On..

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Camp Evenstar

By B.J. | Published January 21, 2015

Our home is out of the water and has been for a couple of weeks now.  We pulled Evenstar in Opua to get some much-needed work done.  The basic list is: New standing rigging.  All the wires that hold the mast up are original to the boat and need replacing.  Read On..

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Bottom’s Update

By B.J. | Published May 23, 2010

We have two coats of bottom paint, the yard came through today with the Saturday workman. Remaining to do, bottom-wise before launch (with responsibilities): Reinstall prop, spray paint it and install new zincs – ME Remove, glass over and paint old ST80 depth/temp sounder through hull – YARD Install Shaft Read On..

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Progress Report Part 2…the Bottom

By B.J. | Published May 22, 2010

So the bottom was a disaster in slow motion that I simply hadn’t planned or budgeted for.  The original plan was simple:  Slap another coat off Pettit Trinidad Ultima SR on the bottom before launch and splash. And to think I believed I had a problem when Pettit “changed” the Read On..

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Butt Naked

By B.J. | Published April 29, 2010

“Look ma, no paint” Boy does Evenstar’s bottom look right nekkid about now.  The soda blasting is done and she’s pretty stripped.  Though, as always, it wasn’t 100% smooth.  A couple of gotchas on this job that we are sorting out. The first is the whole “layer of fine white Read On..

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Soda Blast!

By B.J. | Published April 2, 2010

Sounds like a cool experiment on MythBusters, no?  Kari Byron with a red umbrella in FHM…you know what I’m talking about. Well, no, not exactly in this case.  Not when the bottom paint is falling off in chunks. Not very large chunks, but there some patches the size of my Read On..

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