Topside Repair Work

Repairing Damage and Painting Topsides

damage region of pit & gouges in topsides

The topsides had an area of pits and gouges confined to region of about  a 2 foot radius.   The first photo shows this area.   I am not sure of the origin of damage to the topsides or if it was associated with the missing rub rail and missing toe rail as they all were located on the starboard aft end of the boat.

I used a grinder and a 36 grit sand flip disk to gingerly sand this area down.  And even though this area is above the waterline, I decided to use epoxy and an epoxy fairing of 50-50 colloidal silica to 3M glass spheres.

repaired topside region after sanding epoxy fairing

It appeared that the hull was previuosly painted and that it looked like and exact match to Brightsides white.    The area was first painted using a rolling and tipping technique, but due to the shine of the new paint and the sharp edges of rolling and tipping, you could see the shaded patch.   I sanded this down with 320 grit and using a Preval spray gun, painted over the area and blended out the area.

 topsides after touch-up painting with Brightside
using a Preval spray gun

after painting, polishing, and waxing

here is another area requiring wet sanding,  notice the shaded
region near the bow 

removing old name required wet sanding and touching up

Painting the Stern

stern freshly painted

The Johanna Rose was missing the original LF38 swim ladder.  In it place was a plywood board which was used to temporarily mount an outboard engine.  I filled all of the holes with epoxy thickened with colloidal silica and re-drilled the original swim ladder holes.  Since the transom is a confined finite area I decided to sand and paint it all by rolling and tipping with two coats of Interlux Brightsides.