It is a year since our last post, we got into the final charge to get the boat ready to sail and just ran out of time & motivation to do the blog. This post covers the work on the interior of the boat. We will do the Exterior, Foils, Fit Out and Rig in separate posts over the next few weeks or so.
Gunwales
In our last post the gunwales and chute mouth had been sanded back to bare wood, ready for AWLWood. The first step was to put the AWLWood primer on. The primer is very thin, very water like. So has to painted on very carefully to avoid it running on to other parts of the boat.
We left the primer 24 hours and then did the first coat of AWLWood Gloss. We did our application with a 2″ roller and then tipped the coat with a narrow 1″ fine brush.
After 24 hours the coat needs to be lightly sanded with 220 grit sandpaper and the process repeated for two more coats.
After coat three each subsequent coat is sanded with 280 grit. We did five further coats before doing our final two coats.
The AWLWood technical papers recommend sanding the last two coats to 400 grit. The results can be seen in the picture. It leaves a deep shiny finish and because AWLWood layers merge into what can be best described as a film, similar to Paint Protection Film it is hard wearing.
Interior
Our approach for varnishing was to break the boat down into sections, starting with flats of the bow section. Followed by the vertical sections above the seats to the transom and the tops of the seats and the finally verticals of the side tanks down to the floor. Finally we did the centreboard case, space frame and traveller beam.
We used Epifanes Woodfinish varnish and the plan was to do five coats before doing a light sand. Unfortunately we had a couple of mistakes meaning we had to sand two layers off. As a result we did eight coats, but probably only six in total.
The end result is below:
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2 Comments on “Classic I14 – Where we are & how we got here – Interior”
Hey All:
This masterpiece looks fantastic – I ‘ll bet you can’t
wait to rig-it up and her get under sail, outstanding.
Robert
Thank you Robert, you are very kind.