Prime

Mikey points a screwdriver at one of his Vespas.

Good to see the designer is now a follower! I hope my workmanship isn't too disappointing for him.

Well we've got the primers on over the weekend, two coats outside and in, on top of the Everdure I put on last week. The strakes nearest the keel on the outside are a different colour because I used up the two-pot primer left over from my work on the mast. If the two-pot topcoat is too different a colour from the single pot, I guess I'll just have to either live with it (likely) or redo it (unlikely!). I like to think I'm building this in the real traditional manner (ie, not with stuff used in the old days, but with stuff I have handy so nothing goes to waste, like in the old days).

We're working on the topcoats this week, and then comes the varnishing! You can see in some of the pictures here all the shavings we swept out of the shed on Saturday. Quite a bit.