We managed to find a quart of Interlux's "Off White" from West Marine in Anacortes, where we went yesterday to pick up the paint and stroll among the boats moored there. We were looking a different paint schemes, as well as some of the rigging equipment on the various boats, to get ideas and confirmation of our (Dad's) ideas.
Today involved putting a coat of the off-white on about half the boat, painting the upper hull, and doing some odds and ends (such as epoxy sealing portions of the hatch covers that we'd routed off, cutting the mast to length and drilling a hole (and then sealing it) in the upper mast for the gaffe rope. Now we have something of a two-faced boat, with about half done in off-white (starboard) and half done in matterhorn white (port). Now to pick...
I think this last one (of the cockpit) reminds me a little bit of the Space Shuttle Cargo Bay... you know, at 1/20 the scale...
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