16th May 2010

Spent the full weekend down the boat, arrived Saturday morning at just after 8am.  The plan this weekend is to get into a position where I could epoxy and fill the new roof line so I can sand it later in the week.

Karen had done a great job of striping the sides, but there bottom layer of paint didn't want to budge and I want Sabrina back to bare wood for the epoxying, it will probably be the first time in many, many years, or even since she was first built that shes back to bare wood.

I had at this point, already gone through over 60 sanding discs of various grits, I'd been to screwfix the day before and bought another fifty 60 grit and ordered another fifty 240 grit, although during the day I managed to almost run out of 120 grid discs.

I was pleased with the sides, I still need to tidy up where it joins the deck as neither nitromors or the sander will reach, elbow grease here we come! You can see the

Karen spent the afternoon striping the transom, she managed to scorch the wood in places as there was only a single layer of varnish on it.  Thankfully 120 grit, followed by 240 sorted it out.  I need to take the rail off and also the name badge and do the whole thing, but you can see the rich colour that it will be when sealed.

I spent Sunday finishing striping the inside and round the windows, three coats of nitromors and plenty of elbow crease, there is still more to be done, but you can see she is already looking better for it:

 

I also found time to remove the "fetching" vinyl that was behind the sink and cooker, the plan when I do the galley is to tile the back using small pale matt tiles, mosaic style.

Karen keeps saying that its a wonder I haven't killed myself yet, well I came a step closer today. We reinforced the canopy yesterday, screwing it to the sleepers that Sabrina sits on and adding new 3"x2" reinforcing timbers, the down side, when I walked into the frame, it hurt!