Circumnavigation on a 26ft Catamaran

N 40° 50' W 08° 47'

Busy!Busy!Busy!

09.11.2008

Having a multihull is great but I am now in the process of painting the deck – travelling and living on board have taken their toll on my little boat and she needs sprucing up. I thought I would start of with something easy and paint the anti slip areas all around the deck and went of to the Portuguese paint shop and bought a nice navy blue paint.
On the first nice day (weather wise) I sanded and washed down the aft anti slip areas on my boat and got down to some serious painting. After a while I thought this little tin of paint is not going to cover my whole boat – I will count how many anti slip areas that I have to paint. I counted and re counted! I have 38 ant slip areas on my boat to paint and some of them are enormous! How did I think one little tin of paint would cover the whole lot?!
My friend came over later and I said do you know how many anti slip areas I have on my boat? The answer was about 10 maybe – no I said – 38! My friend did not believe me and went and counted them!!
I am a quarter of the way through on painting them now – they look very smart but I will have to go and get some more paint before I can finish!
My boat is 26ft but as it is a multi hull I think it is equivelant to having a monohull of approx. 40 to 50 ft in terms of paintwork.
So, the moral of the story is – if you are thinking of getting a multihull be prepared to do twice as much work as you would on a monohull of that size!!!
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