Saturday, January 17, 2015

Gear: Bad News: Flaky paint

Pulled Kraken out of the water a couple of weeks ago and as she started drying up a couple of paint flakes came off, then some more, then... lots.

Looks like an earlier layer - not sure when but it was dark bottom paint coming off and at times red paint left underneath, had been applied wrong - with a primer that hadn't bonded to the underlying paint.

Solution? 5k of sodablasting, in SD. Likely some fairing, and new primer and paint. The end result, looking on the positive side, is we'll lose ten years of bottom paint and its weight. Also we'll know that it's done right.

Still - annoying!

Don't look here


Or here...


but still looks pretty if you don't look too close!


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