Starting the roof and blacking

Chalice came out of the water onto the slipway first thing this morning.

We started scraping the roof because some of the paint seemed to have teflon primer. Not all of it was poorly attached, and we had to work quite hard on removing some of it.

Sanding with power tools

At the same time we pressure washed the hull, and scraped away any loose blacking.

The engineer did some welding for us, attaching some new loops for the fenders.

At the end of the day we stopped sanding the roof and took turns at the first coat of blacking the hull.

The roof at the end of the first day.

Blacking the hull with bitumen paint.