Toughest Challenge Yet: Painting our Narrowboat! Ep45

After completing the inside renovation work earlier this year, we were keen to start the exterior paint job on our narrowboat. We had to be patient with this as we were not allowed to paint her while we were in the marina. After our departure from the marina on the 12th of August, we finally started to remove rust patches, sand and prep our narrowboat home ready for a fresh, handpainted coat of exterior paint. Did we anticipate how hard it was going to be? In all honesty, no, we didn't. We knew it would be a challenge, but boy, this was for sure the toughest job yet on our boat. Firstly we had to keep a very close eye on our strange summer weather we were having this year and secondly, bugs, leaves, and just the generally stressfulness of painting a metal surface firstly by roller and then quickly brushing over it to give that gloss, glass type finish. Both myself and Paul have said that we would never, ever paint another boat again and I can honestly say that boat painters are truly talented people, yes I understand they have better working conditions than we had but even so, the sheer patience needed to paint a boat is not one to be argued. That being said, we are very proud of ourselves for even attempting it and are happy with the results. It's really lovely when people pass us by and admire our colours, and we get a real sense of achievement. Our chosen narrowboat paint colours were: RAL 180 20 65 Petrol Green RAL 040 40 60 Copper Red RAL 7037 Dusty Grey We hope you have enjoyed this week's vlog and continue to join us on our Narrowboat adventures. Next week we show you the sights of Milton Keynes as we cruise, have friends visit us and continue to enjoy this special, unique way of living. If you would like to see the renovation side of our story, there are a collection of vlogs in a separate playlist, so please take a look at our channel page. Please hit that subscribe button if you haven't already and give us a like, it really does mean a lot to us and we love reading and responding to all of your comments so please keep those coming. If you enjoyed the video and would like to support our channel you can buy us both a coffee using this link https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Uponrefl... or click on the coffee icon at the top of our page. Thank you #narrowboat #boatlife #livingonaboat #floatinghome #narrowboatpainting #paintinganarrowboatoutside