Put the first coat of primer on the inside. First we had to wash the boat to remove any amine blush from the epoxy, and step and mast and raise the sail to know what point we needed to paint the top of the mast. Of course it happens to be the middle of a hot and humid, typical Florida summer when we are finally ready to paint, and this makes painting that much more challenging. Turns out painting the hull was easy. Because painting the inside with all its nooks and crannies is terribly hard.
Working on the last gunnel.
The voyageur canoe style double gunnels, as awesome as they are, make painting extremely difficult. It doesn't help that paint is drying so fast you can barely tip it out (looking into using a thinner for the next coat). Needless to say, this first coat was a good practice! We learned a lot about how we're going to have to attack the job, and we will keep learning, hopefully quickly, as the coats go on, so that the later coats will look somewhat as nice as the hull.
I will say my tape job on the maple turned out pretty well. We're going to have to varnish the maple at least one more time, though, because Daddy accidentally sanded one of the quarterknees on top as he was sanding the gunnel and I accidentally sanded one on the bottom (out of view - we almost decided to paint underneath, but I wanted to keep them all wood).
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