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Old 02-20-2009, 05:46 AM   #1
Keith
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Vessel Name: Anastasia III
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Last minute bottom paint

Never paid much attention to this before, but I'm in the yard with a new bottom job right now. The thing I'm curious about is that they never moved the boat from the blocks under the keel, so there's no bottom paint in four spots. They plan to slap on some bottom paint when the lift picks it up off the blocks, on the way to the water. At best, I'll only have one coat there, and who knows if it'll survive being dunked in the water within minutes of application. It's Petit Trinidad SR if that makes any difference.

The yard where most of my work has been done before never applied paint on the way to splashing, leading me to believe that they moved the blocks and painted the keel bottom before splashing.

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