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Showing posts with label Paints Oils and Varnishes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paints Oils and Varnishes. Show all posts
Sunday, 13 December 2015

Boat Renovation: Yes But Is It Art?

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Bright and sunny winter days. Normally, this time of year we can expect frost and freezing fog but here in Brittany the winter has been un...
Monday, 10 August 2015

Renovating the Boat Galley

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There comes a point when frustration takes over and it changes your motivation. It doesn’t increase or diminish it but it makes you re-orde...
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Friday, 26 June 2015

Paint for Boat Cabin Interiors

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A great deal of the work required to bring a GRP boat back to life is pretty mindless. Lots of sanding polishing and painting – and it take...
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Monday, 18 May 2015

Refitting The Cabin Interior

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Been having a debate with myself and still haven’t quite reached a conclusion. Despite the fact I wear a mask, I still get to taste dust wh...
Friday, 3 April 2015

Back to the Boat

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It’s that anxious time of year – spring may be just around the corner but I recall two years ago when,after a mild winter, we had snow thro...
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Sunday, 1 June 2014

Low Spot

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I suppose there comes a time in every project when you wonder whether you should ever have begun; a low spot when the tasks seem overwhelmi...
Thursday, 1 May 2014

Can You Smell The Sea?

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There is a long period during the restoration of an old boat when all your efforts seem to be destructive. Taking off hatches to repair or ...
Wednesday, 9 April 2014

Wooden Boat Hatches, Oil or Varnish?

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One of my recent posts proved to be quite controversial, regular readers will recall I have been renovating the hatches on this old boat – ...
Friday, 14 March 2014

New Hatch for a Westerly Nomad

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So here are the refurbished hatches for my boat – almost finished – just needing a little sanding and then a coating – oil or varnish? For...
Thursday, 20 February 2014

A New Hatch for a Westerly Nomad

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Have been working in the warm whenever possible recently –outside is gale lashed and very wet – better than the UK however, most of that s...
Monday, 26 August 2013

Boat Renovation and Intermediate Technology

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So, the cockpit interior is painted and the combings are polished. I’m pleased with the results and surprised by the amount of time th...
Monday, 19 August 2013

How to Lift Old Masking Tape

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I knew I would have problems removing the masking tape from the cockpit combing after painting the inside of the boat cockpit. The jo...
Monday, 12 August 2013

How to Paint a GRP Boat

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  Well this is my final report on painting the GRP cockpit of my ancient Westerly Nomad.  The final report because I don’t want to thin...
Wednesday, 7 August 2013

Painting a GRP Boat (3)

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OK, two coats of Pre-Kote manufactured by International Marine, followed by a significant amount of time sanding back the second coat...
Monday, 29 July 2013

Painting a GRP Boat (2)

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So, I removed all the fixtures and fittings from the cockpit, sanded every bit of GRP I intended to paint with finer and finer sandpa...