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hey guys, need your help. I am about to paint my deck on my C&C27 (73, hull #332). I have a "turqouise" blue hull and white deck. As far a preparation goes, every can I have read talks about sanding. Almost all my deck has the non-skid surface and I feel sanding may not be an option. My paint is in good shape, that is it is faded, not peeling, and seems stable. Common sense tells me that a good cleaning will be good enough. Of course I may be wrong. Has anyone painted their decks and are please with the results? My other concern is that a bright white may be too bright and shiny. Thoughts on this issue? Also I am thinking about compounding, polishing, then waxing the hull, in hopes that the blue will brighten up. I really don't want to paint the hull as well as the deck. Any help about process and paint selection will be appreciated.
1. Read Deck Repairs II in Black Arts for one owner's experience with preparation and painting.
2. A bright white deck will fry your eyeballs under the summer sun. A friend has this and he is not happy about it. The original C&C "white" was a warm white, but you may prefer something else.
3. My light blue hull was chalked and faded. I rubbed it down with fibreglass compound; some areas even got an application of wet-&-dry sandpaper. Fortunately, a friend loaned me a 6" Makita buffer, a powerful, C$300 tool, for the job. Having used this beast, I'd never use one of those Mickey-Mouse automotive buffers you see around boatyards every spring; the Makita was heavy, but it got the work done in reasonable time. I give it two coats of wax every spring. The topsides look great for about two months, then revert to poxy. They're still better than they were, but the bloom is definitely off the rose. I suppose we'll paint one of these days.
David Weatherston
Towser, Toronto
C&C 27 Mk IV
David Weatherston
Towser, Toronto
C&C 27 Mk IV
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David,
I appreciate your input. I do believe I will be sanding and painting as soon as it warms up. I may go with a softer white, and possibly do the nonskid portions in a light grey, or not. While looking over the deck in detail I noticed an electrical two prong plug-in near the bow in the deck. Have you ever seen anything like this in other 27's? Anyway, thanks and as always I look forward to reading the replies that you "ol' time" C&C owners generate in your discussions.
It's not uncommon to see a marine Hubbell connector in the anchor locker, but even a marine connector in an exposed location strikes me as a potential source of problems - water entry to the core, general leaks, etc. House-power fittings (connectors and boxes) are not proof against much more than light rain. If you have GFI's outside your house, you've probably found that they've tripped between uses because water has entered the box either through the receptacles or around the box seals. How effective can they be against a solid wave? These have no business on board a boat.
Because most of us have had a house-power shock at one time or another and not suffered greatly, we tend to be complacent about it. Water, however, improves the current flow to lethal levels for a strong person. Even a properly constructed 3-wire marine AC circuit has its risks; an ungrounded 2-wire connector is flat-out murderous. In the absence of a ground wire, a fault will earth itself through the first person to come near, or jump to the nearest conductor. You could end up with lethally live toerails, lifelines or rigging. While that socket is there, there will always be a temptation to use it. Get rid of it.
David Weatherston
Towser, Toronto
C&C 27 Mk IV
David Weatherston
Towser, Toronto
C&C 27 Mk IV
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