Project Log: Sunday,
April 4, 2010
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I began by quickly washing
yesterday's epoxy work, then sanded the areas lightly as
required. This didn't take long.
Now,
onto the cleanup. Cleaning the boat and shop turned
into more of a project than I'd expected, by the time I
moved things out of the way in the shop, cleaned residual
dust off some of the items I'd had stored hither and
thither, and so forth. I had to remove a collection of
dusty tools and bits from the boat and move all the lighting
temporarily. I removed some old wood pieces--such as
the boat's coamings--from a nearby shelf, where all they did
was collect dust, and removed some bronze hardware for
safekeeping before stashing the coamings in my outdoor junk
pile. They were worthless, but I'd hang on to them as
patterns for possible later use.
I started by
sweeping off the deck of the boat, and then sweeping the
shop floor to get rid of the worst of the dust and debris;
even though the shop was fairly clean, there was a lot of
dust on the floor in harder-to-reach areas, like around the
blocking and jackstands.
Once I'd swept up, I rinsed
off the boat, starting with the deck, then the interior, and
then the hull, before rinsing the floor as well.
Once I'd left the boat to drip dry for a while, and
allow the interior to drain, I vaccummed the collected water
out of the centerboard pin well and forward part of the
bilge, where the water was now contained as I'd hoped.
I also vac'd out the main bilge to remove the final sludge. |
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To round out the day, I removed the cover over the
centerboard sheave housing, an area I'd not yet opened.
I'd probably make a new cover later, depending on how I
decided to lead and/or reconfigure the centerboard cabling,
but for now I set it aside for storage.
My entire
outlook and attitude were greatly enhanced by these efforts,
and I started to look forward to continuing with the
project--which I did all along, but frankly I was looking
forward to being done with the largest of structural
repairs, and wanted badly to be on the other side of that
particular obstacle. |
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Total Time Today: 2.75 hours |
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