Okay, so after sailing my boat some last season, I've decided this season I'd quickly sand, fix, and re-paint it. Ha!
Yeah so...probably won't be sailing this season. There's a LOT of work to do. And that's fine. Plenty of free time with COVID and unemployment.
So here's where the boat is at now - in a large building that used to house 1500 chickens but isn't currently being used.
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I've CitriStripped and sanded the deck all around, and am still chipping away at the cockpit insides. CitriStrip, at least for me, on this job, was not a simple "do it a few times and it's all gone." I maybe have strippled 5-6 times on the most well done spots, and still some places are hard to get (particularly on the part of the deck that is "gravelly".) But deck is pretty much done, finally, although with a lot of help from my new sander.
As I get closer to the "repair" stage. I wonder about what this is? I'm assuming it was something meant to "fill" in the gap between transom and deck. Maybe there was some repair there, or a transom replacement at some point? It acts weird when I sand it - like the paint doesn't just come off, but sometimes digs in and swirls around some.
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