I'm building a boat to a design by Paul Fisher of Selway Fisher Design in the UK. The design is called "Able" and her vital statistics are: overall length 4.88m (16ft), beam 2m (6ft 6in) and design weight is 360kg (790lbs). You can read more about this design at http://www.selway-fisher.com/OtherDB.htm#KANE.

I intend to procede more slowly with this boat than I did with either of my other boat building projects (see links below on the right). This is, after all, a hobby and there are other things to do. So, updates to this blog might happen once every week or two. Come back and see.

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Monday 7 January 2013

White Bottom Paint Complete

The bottom of the boat now has 3 coats of white International Toplac paint. This was thinned with Penetrol and thinners. The Penetrol seems to do what it says on the tin: helps keep the wet edge a bit longer and helps the paint level out. The weather is hot here at the moment (even early in the morning) and I needed to add a splash more thinners when the brush started to drag. The 3 coats went on well with no sags or runs and I am happy with the result. Here is a photo of the result.


I am pleasantly surprised that the camera managed to show the different whites, one glossy the undercoat more of a satin finish.
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