Sisyphus might prefer his stone

L'ORIENT being an Amel means that the design conformed to Henri Amel's view of the world.......and he apparently thought wood was stupid on the outside of a boat. Kirstin and I have pitied the many sailors we see sanding teak decks in the hot sun for weeks. Well, our comeuppance was this week. We had to repaint our faux teak deck.

The heavy lifting is painting the thin black lines between faux teak deck panels. Its basically a pin stripe. But, because our boat is 53 ft long, with 9 lines on each side and more in the cockpit......its 2/10 of a mile. Imagine painting a pin stripe this long on your hands and knees and you will understand this project.

How bad is sanding teak ? We prefer our project to that.

Using my German pin striping tool (like all machines from Germany.....expensive but worth it) we have knocked this out in about 4 days. And truth be told, we weren't doing anything anyway.