Spent a couple of days helping to repaint Rodney Bey – Exmouth Gig Club’s rowing boat. She had been stripped down to the wood over the winter and now needed to be repainted in advance of the coming season which starts with the World Pilot Gig Championships on the Isles of Scilly in May.
Stripped down to the wood (narrow-leaved elm)
Applying the base coat primer
First coat finished
The first of two coats of enamel gloss paint
One more coat to go
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