Red, Grey & holes

Painted the last layer in the oars, drilled a few holes and started painting grey.

Second coat...

... on the oars

Red paint

Primed the boom, yard, sprit and the other side of the seat and foot brace. I also put on the first coat of red paint on the oars.

Paint again

Started painting again, today primer on the oars, rowing seat and footbrace. Have had a lot of problem finding paint. I ran out of paint just before I left Poland so I tossed the cans, big mistake as it turns out...
First I tried to get the same paint as I had in Poland but could not find a supplier (or get a response). So I decided to go to my local paint store. We had long discussions on which paint to use all the way from two part garage floor paint (does not work outdoors) to house paint (maybe not abrasion resistant enough) finally we decide to go with a window paint that also is used for outdoor wood stairs and patio furniture.
Then it was time to find the right colour and this is where I could have used the paint cans from Poland as they had the colour code printed on them.... I found the colour code for the red paint on this blog (no trace of the grey though) but as it turns out I must have made some mistake as that colour does not exist???
So I brought the rudder (grey) and the tiller (red) to the paint store to try to find out the right nuance. Could not find the exact match but hopefully close enough. This is what I got:
Red - S 2570-R
Grey - S 2002-B

Sanding oars

Just sanding the oars getting them ready for paint.

Fixing the centre board case

As you may remember I had some center board troubles last summer, so I decided to fix it today. It was simpler than I expected, I just cut of the excess case and glued on some new reinforcements. The only tricky bit was not cutting into the centerboard uphaul plate.
I also planned to glue on some of my cleats but we were hit by a swarm of small black beetles (no idea what they are called in English, we call them rapsbaggar) so that will be another day.

The start

Half way there

Cutting done

New reinforcements glued in place

Time today: 1h

Mast disaster

Disaster might be exaggerating a bit. We were supposed to glue the main mast today, but as it turned out at least two of the staves were too bent to be used. We could not press the thing together to make a mast. So I will have to buy some more wood!