Scrape, paint and everything in between

Victor Too looks ready to go in the water, and she almost is.
The different stages to get the hull painted were scraping her down, until she looked like this:


Then it was applying the antifouling, now she looks like this:

Just two images, and it looks like there is nothing to it. And of course it was nothing as hard as what I'd imagined. Not that I would do it again, noooooooooooooo way!

I generally scraped two hours in the morning and two in the evening. After noon and before 5 p.m. it was too hot to do this, and my arms and shoulders welcomed the rest. And there was plenty to do in between, so I kept my days full with other jobs. I sewed all the protection covers for the hatches and made another fly screen for the main hatch. I took the prop off - or rather, had it taken off by Tomané and then put it back on with mild force and a lot of grease. The grease will hopefully ensure I can get it off under water when I want to have the folding prop on.

After the hull was clean, I took some pictures, waited for the wind to subside and on Friday ground the rust from the keel. I then immediately put on a first coat of antifouling so the rust didn't get a chance to take hold again. On Saturday morning, I put on the first coat of antifouling to the hull and the second on the keel. And on Sunday morning, the second coat on the hull was applied.


And voila, after cleaning and waxing the topsides, now I have an entirely treated hull that will get us across and back, without bringing half the ocean life we encounter with us.