Topside Painted!

After days upon days of painting, sanding, re-painting, re-sanding, mixing paint with flattening agent for portions of the boat (to reduce gloss), re-painting, mixing paint with no-skid additive for stepping surfaces... it is finally painted!  In the end, we went with Matterhorn White, which has a bit of gray in it.

It looks sharp with the wood, and with a flattening agent added on the topsides, it's less glossy.  I like it.

Here are some photos from the process.  It's amazing how boat paint is not at all designed to hide defects; it brings them out!  So we sand.  And sand.  We added some no-skid to the flat surfaces to help prevent slipping.  Then it was time for her racing stripe.  It's also amazing how frustratingly good the human eye is at noticing tiny imperfections in the curve of a line.