Back in white… err…

Yes this blog is still active. We just had a bit of a bumpy summer making it rather difficult to find the will to write. I won’t touch on that right now so I’ll just move on.

The top of the pilot house has been an eyesore since we got Pathfinder nearly 6 years ago. Sort of painted… sort of rusty etc. So a few years I took a crack at trying to fix that… then the weather turned because of course it did so all I had done was sanded the paint off and some rust. Which meant the next year it was even MORE exposed to the elements instead of less… great.  So it rusted even more.

Well NO MORE I SAY!

I took some time off recently (no really!) and for the last 2 weeks I’ve been generally relaxing, messing around on the computer, the boat, went to the museum where I made a partial mosaic of Mario

(we left it unfinished since we wanted to see more of the Pompeii exhibit but someone else finished it later when we found an image of it online!).

And of course I painted the top of the pilot house. When we got it it was a sort of beige-brown colour. We went with White to keep the pilot house cooler this coming summer. Anyways here’s the album.

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="Starting to sand off the rust"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="Deep in my work"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="This looks like fun ya?"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="As you can see the rust was rather bad."][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="Really bad."][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="400" caption=""][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="Good portion done sanding."][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="Later on I needed to use a grinder to get the paint off from around the stanchions there because I got only 120 grit sandpaper and it wouldn't eat through the paint there."][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="Taking an OJ break"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="400" caption=""][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="400" caption=""][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="As sanded as it was goina get"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="Starting with the primer."][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="400" caption=""][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="400" caption=""][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="First coat finished!"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="Almost finished that is."][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="400" caption=""][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="400" caption=""][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="Just doing the edges as well a bit. I'll probably redo these next year a little more thoroughly."][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="Ya. I need to clean this area up..."][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="Apparently my wife likes the painters butt look."][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="Upon discovering of her painters butt photo I offered to rust proof her. She said no. Weird."][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="Maybe this year we'll have the spot and flood lights taken in for sand blasting."][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="400" caption=""][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="After another coat of primer I started the white!"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="400" caption=""][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="Already looks a lot better!"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="Yup. This is our view during summer."][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="Done coat 1!"][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="400" caption=""][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="And the final coat of white done yesterday!"][/caption]

 So ya. Next year we’ll finish a bit more towards the bow on the pilot house and may do a fancy maple leaf design on the top just to make it look schnazzy. So there ya go! Another job done!

Oh. One last thing. You wouldn’t think it’d impact things much but just painting it white has lowered the temperature of the pilothouse by a noticeable amount. Usually it’s a bit too hot to stay in for long without opening windows and hatches.