New Paint

wingssail image-Fredrick Roswold
Wings'Deck

This deck takes a beating; it gets scratched, chipped,dinged and dirty and both cruising and racing are hard on it. Every two years we need to repaint it.

Usually we do this ourselves. It takes two people three days to do it: One day to mask, one day to paint two coats, one day to remove the masking. We've done this about 10 times in the past, and once a few years back we had all the hardware removed and the deck sanded down to bare glass. Otherwise it is just a repaint after a light sanding right over the old paint.

This time we had the boat yard do it and I have to admit they did a nice job.

They also used some proper marine deck paint so we'll see if it lasts longer.