Finally Painting the Bottom

I finally, caved and said --- it is good enough!  Time to paint. I think Peter and James were ready way before I was.  Even though we plan to dry sail the boat, we opted to paint the bottom with the Interlux Interprotect 2002e White barrier paint.  This paint is actually sandable, and would allow us to get the bottom of the boat extremely smooth, and at the same time provide a barrier coat for when we do leave it in the water for a week here and there.  Here is what she looks like after a couple of coats of paint.

This is went it really started to get exciting.  All of that brown QuickFair splotchy brown on the bottom is completely covered.  We ended up rolling on 2 full gallons, in roughly four coats.  I wanted it to go on thick, so I could sand it down.  We thinned it out with 10% Interlux 2333N Reducing agent to minimize the orange peel.  It felt great to get it on the boat.  Feels like we are getting soooooo close!  The ultimate plan is to sand this smooth, and then put a final coat of PErformance Epoxy on the bottom to cover the Interprotect 2002e.  Just a quick note, as you can see from the picture, the "white" Interlux Interprotect is really slightly gray.