Dueling Paint Booths And Looming Deadlines At Stephen Miles Design

Both paint booths at Stephen Miles Design in Owensboro, Ky. are occupied right now. For the record, this is not a rare occurrence—it happens more often than not.
What is rare is that one project is for a client, while the other is for Miles himself as the painter is dressing his own MTI 340X catamaran. As previously reported, a rare window in Miles’ schedule opened up so he filled it with his own project.

If Miles finishes his personal boat by February 15, the last element of its total makeover will be complete.
But he has less two weeks to get it done. Another paying paintjob projects arrived February 15. If it isn’t complete, Miles’ boat will get the boot to make room for the new job.
“If my boat isn’t done, we’ll have to move it to the side,” he said. “But I think we’ll get done. Starting next weekend, Heather and I will be here on Saturdays and Sundays working on my boat.”

MacLeod’s open-cockpit 46 catamaran will be a beauty when its finished.
An open-cockpit Outerlimits Offshore Powerboat SC 46 catamaran currently occupies the other Stephen Miles Design paint booth, but a significant amount of work remains on that one. The boat is owned by Donne MacLeod, a repeat client and longtime friend of the painter.
“We should have that boat ready for Clear Coat by the end of next,” said Miles.
In the meantime, the clock is ticking on completing the paintjob on his own boat. Hardcore performance-boating fan that he is, Miles has motivation beyond bringing the 34-footer in the modern era.
We really want to take it back down for one or two of the Fort Myers Offshore events before we bring it home for the summer,” he said.

Plenty of work remains on the 46-footer.
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