Sand, Paint, Varnish. REPEAT!!!!!!!!!!! Steve started sanding as soon as the boat was back in the shed after the ship yard. The WHOLE boat got sanded on the outside (O.K. I lied. We didn’t do the masts this year. We did them last year and just did touch-ups this year.)

And I “dug into” a small issue. The deckhouse roof was fit out 50 years ago with galvanized steel downspouts. I wanted to replace one of the worse and chiseled and cut the first one out of the roof.

The old downspout hanging below the deckhouse soffit. 

 

A crude router jig to clean up my chiseling surgery . . .

The new brass fitting right before I epoxied it into place. Good for another 60 years!

Then I clamped in a piece of yellow cedar to repair the cut-out I had made . . .

The new brass downspout in place.

AND  . . . Sand and sand and . . .

sand  and . . .

 

and sand . . .

 

and sand . . .

and sand . . .

and sand . . . .

Another small side project. The main ship’s batteries were never properly vented to the outside, So I made a new vented box over the batteries with a small computer fan for extra venting under conditions when the batteries are gassing such as when they are equalized.

Sand the transom ready for varnish . . .

A bit of repairs near the bowstem. i am SO not a ship wright. The small piece of wood was totally non parallel, curved, slanty, tapered and generally confusing for a poor carpenter that likes right angles and parallel sides . . . . I made 3 until  I  got it right. . . .

Selfie  . . . .

Sand, Sand, Sand . . . . What a MESS!!!!

The big day came when the sanding was finally finished and the sun shown brightly. So we pulled the CIII out of the shed to wash her clean and dry her in the sun . . .

Wash, wash, wash. from the very top to the water line . . .  

Even the deck chairs were scrubbed with scotch brite to prep them for another coat of Cetolclear gloss finish . . .

Stain the transom . . .

 

A small diversion. the lid for for our roof top freezer box was mistakenly opened too quickly on a gusty, windy day and the lid was damaged. It was easier to make a new lid than repair the old . .

Varnish the transom . . .  4 times . . .

Paint the green bulwarks . . .

 

Paint the roof details . . .  

Wipe the varnish clean with paint thinner . . .

Varnish the exterior teak doors and windows . . .

A few accumulated cans of paint and spare paint brushes . . .

Cold zinc the stanchions  . . .

Paint the deck house . . .

Paint the hull . . .

 

Paint the inside of the bulwarks . . .

and paint . . .

and paint . . .!!!!!!