Outside Work - 2019

  • Pressure Wash / Hand Clean all oiled wood.
    The dirt is a dark green slime. "Totally Awesome" cleaner takes it right off and a pressure washing finishes the cleaning.
  • Dorade Boxes to install.
  • Some of the wood trim is warping, especially the oak and allowing water to seep into the plywood.
    Best thing to do is to remove it and cover all the edges with new canvas.
Dirty Oiled Wood - Rub Rail More Dirty Oiled Wood - Pilot House Brow
   
Dorade Box installation beginning. Cut the air tube to length and sealed it around the edges. Screening will go on the top to control bug infestation. Dorade box starboard side completed.
   
Dorade box port side completed. Really looks bad, but once the wood is thoroughly cleaned all I need to do is start the oiling process again. You can really see the difference between the 2 with only one coat of oil. I tried sanding it at first but the oil gummed up the sandpaper. After all this time I am still learning.
   
Gnettie found a water stain on the V-Berth mattress cover. I suspected water came through the forward port lights. So I scraped out all the old silicon (never use silicon on a boat) and replaced it with butyl rubber tape.

But you can see the oak strip above has pulled away from the deck and is leaving a gap for water to seep through. Off it comes ! 		Close up. The rubber tape will continue to squeeze out for a few days and will never harden.
No leaky ever again..
   
On closer inspection the wood strip the antenna is mounted on was rotted. The Bristol finish came off on the top and trapped water. So off it comes. All wood trim on the fore deck is to be removed. Water is seeping in between the wood and the canvas.
   
When I removed the wood trim on the starboard side it left a gap in the canvas. So I glued in #10 canvas to fill the void. Then a thinner canvas cap will go over top as shown in the next picture. The back edge showed signs of wood rot so I used some CPES and epoxy filler for the repair.
Otherwise the complete fore deck is in great shape. 		Cleaned it all up, and glued a canvas cap over all the edges. The edging is ready to paint.
No more wood to mess with.
   
Port Side. Removed the large board the antenna was mounted on and there was a lot of canvas damaged under it. Removed it all, sanded and fared it out. New canvas and ready to paint.
   
When I was repairing the canvas under the windshield sections I saw how really ugly my rot repairs were.
I had added little extension pieces to replace those that were rotted out. Decided to replace all the lower frameworks with teak, so they will never rot again.
   
Starboard side all done.
The upper piece was glued in 5200 sealant, almost impossible to remove, so it gets to stay.		 Port side all done.
The little nubs you see are the windshield wiper motors.
   
Starboard side foredeck canvas strip is on !!! The side of the port propane locker plywood showed signs of delaminating, so I had to remove it. This is the quality of wood you get nowadays. Pitiful. I think these panels are supposed to fit together to complete the laminate. Dahhh...
   
Port side propane locker getting a new side. All Done
   
Here's an example of the mess on the port and starboard sides of the boat. Teak panels were over $300.00 plus hours of work fitting them into place. The Bristol Finish offered no protection and the panels all rotted. So we decided to not waste any more money and replace them with MDO board and simply paint them.
One sheet of 1/2" MDO board is now $70.00		 Took all of a full day to fit the new panels. I wanted to be more precise this time.
Gnettie Varathaned them on the back side to seal against moisture and here they are with their first coat of paint. MDO board is made for sign painters so it is very smooth both sides and weatherproof.
   
Checked for wood rot and cleaned up the old butyl rubber. Starboard side ready for new panel. I had to install it in 2 pieces to avoid buying another sheet of MDO.
I put it on the forward end in case I need to get into the pilot house wiring in behind it.
All done !!
   
Checked for wood rot and cleaned up the old butyl rubber. Port side aft section ready for new panel. Also mounted the dock side water inlet. All done.
   
Checked for wood rot and cleaned up the old butyl rubber. Port side forward section ready for new panel. (Excuse the dirty deck !) Port side forward section done with white painted stainless steel screws.
Also notice new brown painted stainless steel screws and refinished window sills.
I am removing the trim washers everywhere.
   
Hatch all put back together. Had to rebuild the port side hinge support. Port propane locker finished.
   
Here are before and after shots of the rub rail. I decided to try Bristol Finish again, and here are the results.
Before. After
   
I love how the Bristol Finish brings out the color of the fir chain-wale. Gnettie.. Cetoling the bowsprit.
   
More Cetoling on bowsprit. Looks like new.