{"id":2378,"date":"2023-01-18T09:10:57","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T09:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/denmarkrowers.org.au\/blog\/?p=2378"},"modified":"2023-01-20T13:18:32","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T13:18:32","slug":"day-150-painting-and-varnishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denmarkrowers.org.au\/blog\/2023\/01\/18\/day-150-painting-and-varnishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 150, Painting and Varnishing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Monday 17 January 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today was a good day to start varnishing as it was a bit overcast and cooler and the wind wasn&#8217;t stirring up the dust. The first thing I did was to have a big clean up and a vacuum around the shed with JP&#8217;s wonderfully powerful machine. I cleared all the surfaces I would need to lay out the thwarts and recovered them in the last of the baking paper and some cling film. I realised I would need some wooden toggles on the bottom of the cox&#8217;s seat to hold it in position and just as I started Veronica walked in and I gladly handed over that job to her. She cut a piece of oregon left over from the outer gunwale and rounded the ends before drilling and fixing them in place on the bottom of the seat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Harry joined us and I gave him the job of sanding the stern footrest ready for painting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I used a cloth with the Awlgrip primer to coat the thwart pins and the newly shaped rowlock blocks with their initial coat of varnish. I then applied the second coat of deck paint to the floor of the boat while Veronica painted the stern footrest with white two pack primer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/denmarkrowers.org.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_1691-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/denmarkrowers.org.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_1691-768x1025.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/denmarkrowers.org.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_1691-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/denmarkrowers.org.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_1691.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Deck paint on the floor finished and gunwales varnished.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We stopped for morning tea and had the remaining ginger nuts. I&#8217;m afraid the standard of catering is slipping as we near the end of the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Veronica gave the thwarts a light sand while I made the finishing touches to the deck painting and then cleaned the brushes. Barney had had enough by now and so Veronica took him home and I made a start on varnishing the thwarts and the gunwales. Getting varnish evenly into the slots in the gunwales is a time consuming and brush destroying job as I expected it would be. Again I could only make things go a little smoother by listening  to podcasts of the ABC science show. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/denmarkrowers.org.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_1690-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/denmarkrowers.org.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_1690-768x1025.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/denmarkrowers.org.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_1690-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/denmarkrowers.org.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_1690.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Varnished Sheoak thwarts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The last job of the day was to paint the footrest face with deck paint and of course clean up the brushes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/denmarkrowers.org.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_1689-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/denmarkrowers.org.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_1689-768x1025.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/denmarkrowers.org.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_1689-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/denmarkrowers.org.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_1689.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">White primer on the back and deck paint on the front of the stern footrest.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cheers Dave<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday 17 January 2023 Today was a good day to start varnishing as it was a bit overcast and cooler and the wind wasn&#8217;t stirring up the dust. 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