I met Shawn at the boat after work on Friday and we put a layer of filler onto the fiberglass (Awl Fair). It comes in two containers: one red stuff and one white stuff. We mixed it together 1/2 and 1/2 to make a pink mud which actually spreads really well. The purpose is to fill and smooth just as you would a drywall before painting it. So we mudded the back third on Friday evening. We debated mudding all of it (it would have taken another hour), but decided to wait until Saturday. In hindsight, we should have done it on Friday evening.
Saturday we completed the mudding of the deck and then we had to wait for it to harden. THEN Shawn got the pleasure of sanding it. After sanding it, we realized it needed ANOTHER coat of mudding! (This is why we should have finished it on Friday night!!! but we did not know...we thought one coat would be enough!). So another coat of mudding...then we had to wait for it to dry.
Once the surface was acceptable, the primer coat of paint will go on. This happened on Sunday. I have to vent about the paint. The directions say TWO coats of primer 16 hours apart!!! What??? That means the primer is going to be a 2 day process!! Why would a manufacturer not make it 12 hours apart??? That way you could do two coats in ONE day!!! Grrrrr!!! So....we got the first coat of primer on.
Shawn replaced the antennas back on the flybridge while we were waiting on the mud to kick. He created backing plates which he installed as well.
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