Today Jay and I tackled one of those projects that needs to be done occasionally, but that we dread doing - scraping off the old bottom paint and prepping the bottom for fresh paint.  We spent close to 6 hours scraping, sanding, cleaning, and prepping the bottom for the new bottom paint that it will receive tomorrow.  Today's job was without question one of the dirtiest jobs I've ever done.  I'm so glad it's over!

Here's the before picture (we had scraped some of the paint already)



Here's Jay hard at work:



And the after pictures:







Like I said, this was a DIRTY job.  And yes Mom, I was wearing a respirator so I didn't breath in too much of that nasty paint. Tomorrow we'll wipe the boat down with acetone one more time, prime it, then apply fresh bottom paint.  I'll post some more pictures of the paint work tomorrow.  I'm really looking forward to this job being finished, but its the price we pay to play.

Until Next Time,
Fish On!!         

~Capt. Bill