Last night i finished the second of what had better be two coats of epoxy mixed with graphite powder. I say "had better be" because there was just enough graphite for 4 3-pump batches of epoxy, and it took one batch to do one coat on half of the boat. Yay math. Any light spots will have to get covered up with pigmented epoxy. Yay makeup.
One thing I'll say about black shiny epoxy is that it shows every single mistake, regardless of how i tried to fix or hide'em; that's mostly spots where i sanded the hull a bit too aggressively or had to fair away a bit more wood than i would have liked. But it looks really cool. And if the manufacturer's claims are right, it makes the bottom of the hull much more resistant to the kind of deep gouges I dread. They claim you can drag one of these babies through a parking lot and while the graphite may scuff, that's as far as it goes.
So, tonight will be:
Putting coat #5 on the lower coamings
- Sanding as much of the interior as i can reach
- Maybejustmaybe doing a final epoxy coat on the deck OR the hull.
- Glassing my second pair of top coamings. Somehow i assembled and glassed the original set without realizing that one of the coamings had a part number stamped on both sides, such that once the glass was on there was no way to conceal that stamp other than to paint the coaming or use pigmented epoxy, both of which ideas seemed stupid to me. Oh well - just add it to the extras.
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