Bilge painting, oiling deck

Bilge painting is a curse on any boat (apart from Caledonia Yawl). Ilur is no different, especially with all internal structures in place.

To make my life a bit more complicated I decided to paint only the bilge - and to varnish everything else. That means I use tape to keep these areas separated while painting.

First coat of International Danboline rolled & brushed. Second coat has to be rolled after 16 hours, max within 2 days with current temperature 25 C.

To keep up with my schedule I skipped watching drying paint and started oiling deck planks.
It was a pleasant change from diving into the bilge.

Owatrol D1 oil smells ugly when wet so I chose to paint outside. That went smooth apart from sudden thunderstorm which blown lots of debris from my pine tree onto wet planks and caused me sudden evacuation with the whole setup under the roof. Ten minutes later the weather was smooth again, no wind and dry so I could finish oil saturation disturbed only by mosquitos.

Tomorrow I will roll second coat of bilge paint and start building mast partner and foot.