We splashed Circe this week after getting her a fresh bottom paint job and fixing some electrical issues (detailed elsewhere in a separate post). Everything turned out very well and we are anxious to get her into her new slip and start on the topsides cosmetics.
After researching the many bottom paint products available, and recalling our own past experiences, we finally settled on 2 coats of blue Interlux Micron CSC for the old girl. As Circe was sitting really low on her lines we also raised the waterline a couple of inches. Unlike most other ablative coatings Interlux claims CSC will not deteriorate due to drying during a 'mid-cycle' haul out and will 're-activate' when the boat is put back in the water. We shall see!
While she was hauled out we also had the accent stripe repainted to match the sheer stripe, canvas and bottom paint and had the hull buffed out. The 'gold' paint on the original accent stripe had faded to invisibility and, to our eyes, gold just didn't look right in the overall colour scheme. Also there were quite a few fender scuffs, non of which were bad, just ugly! The paint, buff and wax job alone made the whole boat look really good!
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Now that the hull is looking much better the heat is on to get the topsides cleaned up, buffed and waxed and the exterior bright work refinished.
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