Painting the guest berth

That wall in our guest berth looked pretty shabby. That's not surprising given that the wall covering is 36 years old and the mahogany trim has probably never been refinished. We've done all the prep work over the last few weeks so this weekend it was time to apply some paint and varnish.

We masked off most of the trim last weekend and on Saturday be began by masking all the spots that we missed and there were quite a few of them. What we are calling "trim" just may be mahogany and we used Sikkens Marine Light on every piece. It was rewarding to see the wood take on new color and smoother surface.

As we think we mentioned before, we didn't sand the interior wood trim but instead scrubbed it with Dirtex. It was amazing how much dirt came off and from the way it looks now, after applying the Sikkens, not sanding was a good idea.

After applying the Sikkens to the trim, we were left with some time on our hands. It was much to early to go home so we broke out the interior paint and applied a first coat on the large wall areas were we could, without disturbing the masked off and still tacky wood trim.

The color we are using on the walls was originally designed by Frances who used it when she reconditioned all of the doors on the boat when we first bought it. We used that color again last summer when we refreshed the galley and head walls and they came out fine.

We had about half a quart left from last summer and that was enough to give the guest berth walls a good first coat. We used a three-inch roller and a one-inch brush.

One the way home, stopped at a Sherwin Williams store to buy more paint. Unfortunately, we had obliterated the paint formula on the side of the can but that didn't turn out to be much of a problem. The person at Sherwin Williams asked where we had purchased the last quart of paint. We told her that it was in Norwich. She called the Norwich store, got the paint formula from them and was able to duplicate it in just a few minutes.

We're glad we are in the Sherwin Williams national database and from now on, Frances' color is called "Boat Peach Large."

Here's a before-and-after of what the aft wall looked like

The color doesn't show up very well in incandescent light but it makes this whole area so much brighter and cleaner looking.

On Sunday, we got a few more surfaces painted but avoided the mahogany trim, which was still a little tacky.

Our plan is to finish the guest berth area next weekend and then see if we can refurbish the v-berths before it's time to go back in the water.

We shot some video but we're getting tired of seeing Bill in most of them. Next weekend the Master Planner, Frances, will be asked to appear.  Since spring is coming, it's about time we see her smiling face.