Acadia 39

Boat:

Acadia, 1979 Sabre 34

Schedule:

September 2016 – December 2016

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November 16, 2016

Acadia 39

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Wednesday

I started the day by sanding the first fresh coat of varnish, this time with 320 grit paper.  Afterwards, I vacuumed and solvent washed to prepare for another coat late in the day.

Meanwhile, I turned to the cockpit instruments.  With a third matching instrument display now on hand to replace the old round and obsolete instrument I’d removed from the port side, I drilled a 3-3/8″ hole in the blank cover plate I’d made and painted earlier, matching the two others that I’d pre-drilled.  Then, I installed the plates and instruments, using sealant on the backing plates  (the instruments had built-in gaskets) and securing the instruments from behind with wooden blocks and the instruments’ supplied screws.

New two-speed self-tailing winches arrived to replace the pair I’d removed from the cabin top earlier.  The new winches were the smallest size available with two speeds and self-tailing capacity, but of course the bolt pattern was different from that of the old winches (I expected this).  For now, I held off on further installation steps as I didn’t want to create drill spoils and dust while in the middle of a varnish project.  These winches came with a  plastic top cap and a little note from the manufacturer explaining that there’d been a temporary shortage of the normal stainless caps at the time of production, but with instructions how to request shipment of the proper caps at no cost, which I did at once.

After final preparations, I applied another coat of varnish to all the exterior brightwork.

Total time billed on this job today:  6 hours

0600 Weather Observation:
50°, rain.  Forecast for the day:  rain and clouds, 50s