September 3, 2019
With good progress being made on the interior, I made the decision to go ahead and get the cabin interior primed. My product of choice for priming the bare surfaces is TotalBoat's TotalProtect, an epoxy-base primer. The primer will serve to provide to protect the substrate, but will also help to easily identify areas that need to be spot filled. This early Allied 24, one of the first ten boats laid up, did not have a finished interior liner. What is visible on the interior of the boat is mostly the last layer of heavy roving that was used in the hull's lay up. As a result of this fabrication method, and generally from its age, there are small voids here and there. Spot filling and fairing will help the matter, but by no means are we talking about a baby's butt smooth molded interior liner.
Anyway, on to the day's work. I water-washed the tabbing that I laid up on the settee's outboard edge.
With the amine blush removed, I grabbed my small 1" belt sander and worked the surface of the tabbing, and then finished the sanding by hand in those tight spots.
There were a couple areas that needed some additional attention, the aft side of the primary bulkhead as it interfaces with the outboard edge of the settee. After thoroughly vacuuming the surfaces inside the boat, post-sanding, I solvent-washed the surfaces to be painted today. I then mixed some epoxy resin and wet out this specific repair area - both starboard and port. With the remaining epoxy resin, I thickened it with 406 colloidal silica and 407 low-density filler, and then worked it into the voids. Picture of the port side below.
Picture of the starboard side below. A trim piece will cover a portion of these inside corners, but the exposed portions needed this attention.
With the balance of the thickened epoxy resin, I worked it into the gap the remained after laying in the two new v-berth panels in the forward portion of the boat. In the previous work session, I sanded this area to prep for this epoxy application. I will come back to sand, prime, and paint to finish off the v-berth.
Back in the cabin, I went ahead and taped off the transition line between the cabin interior and the "aft space" of the boat. This area has great stowage potential, but would require structure to take advantage of the space - a great potential future project for the boat's owner.
Over on the starboard side of the boat, the space is a mirror image, and also offering stowage space.
On with pièce de ré·sis·tance. I mixed the TotalProtect primer in the wood shop, and set it aside for its induction period, and used the time to clean the surfaces once again.
After the cabin's surface was prepped for paint, I grabbed a 3" brush and a foam roller, the primer paint and a tray, and headed back to the boat.
I used the brush to hit the tighter radius areas that the foam roller could not...
...and finished the surface with the foam roller. After working through the interior, I was able to get two coats of primer on. As mentioned earlier, the next task for the interior is to sand, spot fill fit the small voids, and then apply the finish coats of paint.
Total Time Today: 4.25 hrs
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