Hey Joe, where y'going with that spray gun in your hand?

Coat number four went on this morning. Here's Joe in action... I can't help thinking that there's a fair amount of varnish in the air and perhaps less going on the boat (the mask is essential and the overalls pretty important, too), but it's still looking better every time).

Edward the Compressor is brilliant: it cuts in automatically to give a constant pressure. Just in case anyone's interested, 4 coats required a litre of varnish (therefore about 250 ml of varnish combined with about 50-60 ml of thinner per coat), so we are probably going to use 4 tins in total to spray in and out, plus a fifth to do the fittings (seats, knees and rudder). That will also call for 4 or 5 tins of thinner, too, so around 2 litres of that. Having said that, I suspect we can refine the settings on the spray gun to give a tighter delivery. 

I notice that there appear to be some strange markings on the transom (the bit nearest you) - in reality these are not at all in evidence and the mahogany is every bit as beautiful as we hoped. It's a shame we have to put the rudder fittings on there.