I couldn't resist sanding the bottom again and putting on another coat when I was doing the sides. The brush marks are pretty much gone. The whole outside of the boat is now olive drab. It looks good to my eye. BTW, the paint does look more olive drab and less hunter green than I initially thought now that it has a couple coats on and is dry.
I need to pad my saw horses before flipping it over. They are Toughbuilt folding ones that came with abrasive tops that would tear up the freshly painted bottom if I were to flip it now.
I suspect I may regret using the Hunters Specialties camo paint on the rails unless it dries much harder with a little more drying time. I guess time will tell. It has taken two coats to get decent coverage. I may either wind up living up with very visibly scuffed up rails or redoing them in the future. I guess neither would be the end of the world. I would be a little bummed out if the olive drab rubbed off on my pretty Bending Branches paddle from doing pries against the rails. I'll probably just dedicate composite canoe and double blade paddles to the pirogue. I have plenty that have accumulated over the years. Maybe, I'll paint the blade olive drab like the boat.
I think if I were doing it again I might have bought a returned gallon of exterior latex house paint from the bargain rack and had them mix a color I liked. I almost did that. I used to buy a gallon of top quality latex for $1 and paint several boats. Stores would mix them an off color as a deterrent for folks intentionally returning paint and coming back and buying it later for $1. Mixing it to something pleasant is easy enough if you aren't too fussy to get an exact color since they usually were a light color to start. Not sure what that $1 equates to in todays market, but last time I checked they still sold returned paint at a large mark down.
I need to pad my saw horses before flipping it over. They are Toughbuilt folding ones that came with abrasive tops that would tear up the freshly painted bottom if I were to flip it now.
I suspect I may regret using the Hunters Specialties camo paint on the rails unless it dries much harder with a little more drying time. I guess time will tell. It has taken two coats to get decent coverage. I may either wind up living up with very visibly scuffed up rails or redoing them in the future. I guess neither would be the end of the world. I would be a little bummed out if the olive drab rubbed off on my pretty Bending Branches paddle from doing pries against the rails. I'll probably just dedicate composite canoe and double blade paddles to the pirogue. I have plenty that have accumulated over the years. Maybe, I'll paint the blade olive drab like the boat.
I think if I were doing it again I might have bought a returned gallon of exterior latex house paint from the bargain rack and had them mix a color I liked. I almost did that. I used to buy a gallon of top quality latex for $1 and paint several boats. Stores would mix them an off color as a deterrent for folks intentionally returning paint and coming back and buying it later for $1. Mixing it to something pleasant is easy enough if you aren't too fussy to get an exact color since they usually were a light color to start. Not sure what that $1 equates to in todays market, but last time I checked they still sold returned paint at a large mark down.
