110 Cookson Lane | Whitefield, ME 04353 | 207-232-7600 | tim@lackeysailing.com
Ashantee | Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Cleaning up from our fourth big snowstorm in 7 days cut into my work day once again, so it was mid-morning by the time I got to things in the shop, beginning once more with the latest round of sanding, mainly in the cockpit. I also sanded flush the several small patches I'd applied to the sidedecks.
The original forward hatch was one of those standard 60s-vintage translucent raw fiberglass arrangements--functional enough but not all that attractive. Along with discussion on various other options for the hatch, I suggested reusing the hatch, but painting the raw fiberglass to match the decks and adding in some sort of flush deadlight or deck prism to allow light in, so to this end I removed the hardware from the hatch and sanded it inside and out to remove old coatings and prepare the surfaces for the next steps.
The old coatings on the companionway hatch were more of the same that I'd seen all over the deck: the gift that kept on giving. It took inordinately long to remove the old white and seafoam green paint from the hatch, bringing it down to original gelcoat and remnants of molded nonskid. I removed the wooden trim from the aft end to streamline hatch preparation and allow me to refinish the wood.
With the day's sanding chores completed, I cleaned up as needed and applied skim coats of fairing compound to the newly-sanded hatches.
Back on deck, I spot-filled a few areas of the cockpit and poop deck, as well as the core-sample patch areas, hoping this would be the final application before I applied a finer finish material as needed. Over the past days, I'd also been working at filling and shaping the aft edge of the deck at the transom to fill in the step left behind when I removed the taffrail, slowly building up the area with whatever leftover fairing compound I had on hand at any given time, and this area was approaching its final contours as well.
Total Time Billed on This Job Today: 5.5
Hours
