It’s SO great to be Blue!

Yes folks, the big day finally arrive today. Tuesday March 13th here and a very lucky day it was indeed.  After months and months of work the great crew from Baobab Marine and I were finally ready to spray on the new Arista blue paint on Learnativity’s topsides! 

 

The weather looked to be perfect with another wondrous start to the day with brilliant blue skies and sun pouring through the tree branches as it rose this morning.  The crew arrived just after eight and we did the final inspection, fine sanded a few small spots and then wiped the entire surfaces down with thinner and rags to get rid of any last traces of dust or grit.

 

 

 

Ron, the new painter for Baobab who has been working with us steadily for the past 3 weeks was all suited up and started spraying at 10am.  You can see him here with the very first hit of the spray gun as the new Aristo Blue starts to replace the formerly all white Learnativity.  He works his way down one side and back up the other and then starts over again to put on each coat.  All in all we put on 5 coats, 20 liters of polyurethane in all so Learnativity is VERY well covered!

Here is my whole paint crew for you to see.  In the photo on the left Lorenzo, the overall supervisor who I work with for the whole renovation is on the far right and then he came and took the picture on the right so I could stand in with them.  They are SUCH a great group of guys to work with and it has been such an big bonus of doing all this work here to get to know them and learn so much more about the people, cultures and attitudes of the beautiful people of this country.  Thanks guys!  Now let’s get back to work on those decks!! <g>

 

 

I think I’ll just let the pictures speak for themselves to show you more about the whole paint job today and give you a little album here to look through at your leisure.  Suffice it to say that it turned out GREAT and I am VERY happy.  The Aristo Blue colour changes just like I had hoped in the different lighting from shade to direct sun and I hope some of that comes through in the photos.  Enjoy looking at my shiny new blue boat!  I sure am!

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Comments

[Erick Emde]

Wow! She looks great! I had to laugh at myself - in the long view looking down the starboard side from the bow, my first thought was, "That's pretty rough and wavy.". Then I realized it was just the canvas around the boat to cut down on overspray. That's actually the best testament to how shiny you've gotten her. Your hard work has paid off handsomely.
Erick

[Wayne]

Thanks Erick! Appreciate you following along here. I had the same reaction when I first saw some of these pictures and took me the same while to realize that it was just the reflection in the paint. Meant to make a note of that in the blog post but maybe more fun for sharp eyed reader like you to figure it out themselves.

Yesterday we were busy taping off the areas at the top of bottom where I'm going to put two white stripes to make the transition from the dark blue to white for the decks up top and to the anti foul paint on the bottom. Mostly we are hard at work on the decks now getting them all filled and sanded and ready for the gloss white and then the anti skid paint to go on. So all is going very well and we'll get her back in the water as soon as is possible and that will just be when it will be.

Thanks again Erick.

[sac prada pas cher]

Tuve la misma reacción cuando vi por primera vez algunas de estas fotos y me llevó al mismo tiempo a la misma cuenta de que era más que el reflejo en la pintura.