Jun. 3, 2008 - feeling blue

Got home from work this evening, and straight out into the garage to get on with the tender....

The interior coats will still need another 24 to 48 hrs to go properly hard, and so I flipped the tender and put the first coat on the exterior..

This was only ever so slightly thinned, as there was a coat of very light primer already on much of the hull, but as you can see it still soaked in quite a lot.

Its a lot lighter than the final colour, which will be a royal blue, but I had a tin of hardly used International paint in this colour, so figured that would do just fine to get a first coat on, and provide a decent base for the darker colour..

Besides that, I don't have the royal blue paint yet.... I've ordered it, along with another tin of brilliant white, so that should just about be enough paint to finish the job.

I've got to start the sail at some point, but not sure I can be bothered tonight...

Another bit of a challenge is that when we bought Morgana, she had a set of dodgers with her, but with two problems.... firstly, after damaging the spray hood slightly, the previous owner had cut a lump out of one of them to use as a matching repair, and secondly, the dodgers have the previous boats name on her, before she was renamed... 'distant dreams'.... I had plans to make a repair to the dodger with a bit missing by sewing in a dark blue panel disguised as a winch pocket, and also match the other side, and then to unpick the name sewn on, and redo with 'Morgana'... I have thus far been thwarted as the name is not only sewn on, but also stuck on, and it looks unlikely that i'll be able to peel the letters off... i've tried!

So, I may need to buy a little bit of material to make some new ones, using the old ones as patterns.... but it'll have to wait... too much to do.... too little time to do it... too little money to pay for it!