his month, as I look across the service yard, I gaze upon two huge, white, shrink-wrap tents over on the south rail. The tents are temporary structures for spray painting. With an involuntary shake of my head, I recall the days when all of our paint work was brush-applied, and our paint crew was the best in the business at slinging that old 99. It was a much simpler process than atomization and one that required far less labor and material. No bagging off, no multiple entire sleeves of masking tape, no roll upon roll of Visqueen and green paper. No three-step priming process with various atomized epoxy fillers. No fear of compressed air contaminants requiring large, screw-type compressors, filters and driers. No opportunistic neighbors demanding that we pay to have their parked cars painted because we somehow over-sprayed them on a freak wind, and no $30,000 temporary expendable structure. Painting boats, like
