Painting
We elected to finish the exterior in a two-pack paint, the idea being to eliminate osmosis and give us as little maintenance as possible. One of the members of the KSS used group sugrested Devthane, an industrial paint, and by a remarkable coincidence one of my brother Sackville has a Devthane supplier as a tenant in Florida. He agreed to supply our needs and was very helpful in exactly matching the colours we wanted (Oyster white for the hull and “Sunbrella” red for the trim). It took some high specification packaging to be able to ship it over but otherwise it has worked out extremely well.
The hulls had been gel coated off the table and so needed little preparation. We had deceided to dispense with gel coat for the rest of the superstructure to save weight. It seemed a good idea at the time but in retrospect it took an awful lot of filling and sanding to get rid of all the pin holes and must have added some weeks to the project. Final pin hole filling was done with a primer paint and then the whole exterior undercoated and glossed in Devthane. We got a professional in to spray her and he produced an excellent finish. The red trim we did ourselves with the two of us working a ‘roller
