- Housekeeping:
- Separated the rear section of the cover from the mid section to allow for air flow.
- Placed the fan in the v-berth hatch and drew air though the boat for about three hours.
- Removed bolts securing winch pedestals to the side decks. The "stainless steel" washers installed in 2015(?) from Home Depot are showing corrosion. Need to be replaced with stainless steel.
- Removed bolts securing coamings to side decks.
- Removed bolts securing coamings to cabin. The head of each bolt was behind a bung. The bungs were rather long, up to an inch. Not good. Currently considering filling the existing holes in the blocks at the forward end of the coamings with bungs, and drilling through all the bungs to create a through hole to through bolt the coamings. Using butyl tape should make this change waterproof, match the appearance of the other bolts securing the coamings, and make reinstallation/replacement considerably easier in the future.
- Removed the coamings. Both coamings had been bedded in a large quantity of brown caulk. The caulk had dried and cracked in numerous places. The quarter round on the outside of the coamings had been "glued" to the finished deck with a bead of epoxy. WTF!
- Took coamings, winch pedestals, and winches home for refinishing. Will return the pedestals to the boat for refinishing at the same time the cockpit is refinished.
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- The coamings sit on a raised shelf which provides athwartships support to the lower part of the coaming. The upper part of the coaming is not supported against outboard pull, or inboard for that matter. Both coamings are split from the front end at the point the shelf stops along to the grain aft till the split reaches the lower edge of the coaming. Thank goodness that the grain parallels the top side of the coaming and not the bottom side. Otherwise, the coaming would have split end to end along the top of the shelf
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- The quarter round covers most of the inboard smooth area of the side deck. Project should expand to include refinishing this smooth area, as well as the area underneath the coaming's "tails" on either side of the stern deck. Considering replacing one of the stern deck ventilation cowls with the Need entry for
manual bilge pump. The location would not be ideal, as the person working the pump would limit the movement of the tiller and place the person as far aft as possible and as exposed to the weather as possible. Nonetheless, if the hole is the right size, it would get the pump into service while I procrastinate in finding a better location.
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- Next steps:
- Remove the access plate in the cockpit floor.
- Remove race signals sticker on aft wall of cockpit.
- Need to decide whether or not to remove the cockpit drains for this project.
- Scrub the cockpit with Dawn, and then Interlux Fiberglass Solvent Wash 202
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