Building the TotalBoat Sport Dory: Episode 35 - Varnish

It's time to Varnish our TotalBoat Sport Dory and we're gonna do things a little differently this time. We're gonna varnish our Dory upside down!

If we had put caps on the sheer we would be able to varnish the guards, right over the caps and then down inside the inwhales. But with the sheer open and the frames exposed, we run a big risk of having varnish run down between the two into the interior of the boat.
So we're going to hang our Sport Dory upside down from the overhead and let gravity work for us.

We need to sand the guards, top of the sheer plank and the inwhales with 220 sandpaper to get them ready for varnishing. We want to focus on the edges and round those out a little bit so they will better hold varnish and not chop off later on.

For our first coat we're going to use TotalBoat Wood Sealer. It's a varnish primer that will help fill the grain, seal the wood fibers and level surface to get us ready for our Varnish.

We will let the Wood Sealer dry overnight and then sand again with 220 paper before applying our TotalBoat Gleam 2.0 Marine Spar Varnish. While brushing on this second coat we need to keep an eye on how much varnish we are putting on our brush and applying to the boat so that we don't get any runs. We want to make sure to tip the varnish as we go to help us achieve a smooth level finish.

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