A Coat of Many Colors

Yes!  You CAN put five coats of paint on a full-keeled 42-foot Westsail in one weekend!  With the soda blasting having been finished, Mike prepped (fiberglassed, sanded, and faired) the hull during the week.  Then Saturday (after a good breakfast at Kegs and Eggs) we taped and painted two applications of a barrier coating (waterproofing).  Sunday we went back (it was in the 80s!) and were able to paint two more coats of barrier coat and then one layer of the anti-fouling, or ablative paint.  (This is the sacrificial layer that is meant to shed, keeping things from growing/sticking on it.)  We would show you before, during, and after pictures, but you've seen the before (which are "after" the blasting).  There's one action shot "during" (since it's messy handling the paint and the camera).  And we've decided to show you the barrier coat in the background with a couple of painting buddies instead.

Action shot applying first barrier coat:

Watching paint dry:

And finally, you can see the painting pals: