We get to grips with spring projects...Ever wondered what it's like to get a small boat ready to launch....!! We'll show you what we did!

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previously on Moneypenny we tried to get

a start on the spring projects we've got

very easily distracted by these lovely

things so instead of doing projects we

decided to have a look at the lovely

present we got figure out how it worked

first part of spring prep is always a

really good wash and the only water

supplier was 260 feet away from my boat

it's a good job acha a long hose pipe

like to give everything a good scrub

with Barkeeper's Friend to get all the

old dirt off from last season and then

depending on how bad the hull is either

a straight compound or a compound and

wax blend and then just a wax polish

over the top to get the whole nice and

shiny marty was friends wonderful stuff

gets rid of all the things from the

mooring can all the dried on bugs from

last season and all manner of other

detritus stuck to the side of the boat

most important thing to remember with

this stuff don't let it dry on the side

of the boat you want to wash it off

after about a minute Barkeeper's Friend

these mildly abrasive so it will lead

the side of the hull pretty flat and

lacking shine and luster so the next

step is to get out the compound on the

buffer first day of spring beautiful day

um so we had an issue that issue was was

power there's power source to the boat

is 500 feet away now if i run 500 feet

of electric cable i'm not going to have

enough power on this end to be able to

use the tools that I want to use to buff

the boat so I was thinking about a

solution and I was thinking about

renting a generator I remember this

little guy

it's my detailed buffer it's battery

cordless great so I'm now going to buff

my whole boat with a 3-inch pad now that

seemed like a really good idea at the

time what I didn't think about of course

was getting an even finish you see I'm

used to a 10-inch buffer used to attend

each pad and that thing leaves a nice

even finish gets good even coverage with

a 3-inch pad it's very easy to leave

those spots the technique I figured out

was exactly the same as with a 10-inch

pad you put the compound on the pad

spread it around and then work an area

that's roughly two by two unlike with a

bigger buffer you've really got to

concentrate on your stroke pan you

really want to make sure that the area

you're working is evenly covered and use

even pressure while you're using the

tool next thing then of course just take

a microfiber cloth and buff off the

excess there's quite a difference

between the part of the hole that's been

just cleaned which is the part to the

left and then the part which has been

polished out with a little compound and

a little wax involved and then and then

we're going to go over and wax the whole

thing on top to give it a nice

protective coat

final step this stuff's wonderful you

spray it on and then you spread it

around with the one of these little guys

it's just a little toweling terry

towelling polishing pad and then you

wipe it off with a with a microfiber

cloth and it leaves just a brilliant

brilliant shine on on the side of the

glass now i'm not sure if any of you

have ever taken up anything to prepare

for a paint job but it takes a long time

typing up and if you have boot straps

and had cove stripes takes even longer

it's funny even a small boat seems

really big when you've gotta put tape

all over

taped off she's been sanded not sure if

you can actually see this it's kind of

important to know why you send something

because that takes hair you send it all

we're trying to do is to give a key to

the existing stripe because it was

painted with the same product were using

today and so what we wanted to do was

just make sure that it was it was keyed

so that that paint wood wood wood wood

bond to one part epoxy paint that we're

using and that requires a mechanical

bond so it needs to have that key so now

we're ready for rum a little bit of

paint it is so important to always make

sure that you shake and stir whatever

paint you're using because they sit on

shelves and all of their good stuff just

sinks to the bottom have a good feel

around the bottom make sure there's no

there's no sediment and that the paint

is it's thoroughly thoroughly mixed you

see there's no there's no clumps on the

bottom of my of my stick if it was

coming out clumpy I would keep painting

it this stuff smells really good too

this is Pettit ezproxy so one part epoxy

topside paint so the technique we're

using to apply the paint is rolling

tipping as either don't know you apply

the paint and spread it out with a

roller as you can see

but the roller leaves raleigh's a

texture in the paint so what we then do

is we come back this is a lot easier to

do two hands on camera what we then do

is to come back with a brush and very

lightly just tip it off with the tip of

the brush what we're doing is getting

rid of that texture and just helping the

paint to flow out there we go now the

difficult part is to try and get all

this tape off the boat without spreading

paint all down the side of the boat

that might be easier said than done so

now we are getting ready just to do

bottom pane and then she's ready to go

in instead a lot of work to do the top

size still need to be done which is all

striped up so now she just needs a

button

you

next time on Moneypenny we take a break

from our spring chores and we attend

yacht super loser we have a look at some

important see safety we get our hands on

so we're any fun pyrotechnics that we

hope we never have to use hope somebody

will come and rescue me and then we

interview the good folks at nautical

donations about their charity work well

at least we try to let's try that again