During the fall season, we kept at the detail work to prep the boat for a new paint job. Good quality boat paints are really expensive, upwards of $300/gallon. And the whole process is so laborious, it’s really worth doing it right the first time; you sure don’t want to have to repeat any of this because of unsatisfactory results. So this video will show how an extra couple of weeks beyond what i expected was necessary to get the good paint results we’ll look at next time. Sit through this one, and you’ll be rewarded with a better looking video next time. :)
Farrier F36/F39 Ravenswing – Trimaran Sailing
Building & sailing a Farrier F36 trimaran, upgraded to Farrier F39 specifications
Farrier F36/F39 Ravenswing - Trimaran Sailing 
Wow! Your attention to detail puts a lot of us to shame.
Question: do you cover the boat at night to keep the dew off?
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Hi Joe. No, it’s not feasible to tarp this thing so I had to work carefully with paint-steps timing. The unusually rainy October really messed with me! In general if I paint early in the day, and use accelerator in the mixed paint, it flashes solid enough to have the protective outer shell formed. One day I painted until 3pm and that was a mistake. Paint didn’t set up before the evening dew, and that coat went dull/matte overnight where the water settled on. The other issue is all hardware holes have been predrilled, so I went around and stuck little blobs of butyl tape in all the holes for temporary waterproofing while the boat awaits hardware / sailing gear installation.
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