About Ms Bettencourt

Ms Bettencourt is a Swedish built 25-foot trailerable trawler. Her hull was completed in 1971, No. 1117 of about 2500 built. The boat is named for my wife Dia, whose maiden name is Bettencourt.

This little vessel came to me as a gift in 2004. Before then she had been abandoned about 12 years on the Savannah River near Augusta, GA. I have repaired and refitted the boat extensively, and I have cruised her along the East coast of the US, from Cape Lookout, NC, to the Florida Keys. I dream of taking her to Havana some day.

This blog started in 2011 to chronicle the building of a hard top for the boat to replace leaky canvas. Since then the blog has become an Albin-25 boatkeeping and cruising journal.


Sunday, September 22, 2013

Renewal progresses

Ms. Bettencourt's middle cabin is starting to look pretty good.

The first enamel coat went on Friday over a well-sanded thin primer coat.

The paint is Interlux Brightside, a one-part polyurethane product. You can get an attractive and durable finish with this stuff -- if the paint is applied in successive thin coats, with light sanding between coats.









The side benches, the aft bulkhead, deck and engine box also looked a lot better after the first finish application.






The plan is to let this paint cure a few days, then to give everything a 220-grit hand sanding to prepare for what I think will be the final finish coat.

The final painting and reassembly of the mid cabin will resume around mid-October.

Please check back in late October, by which time I expect the work to be nearing completion.




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