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Monday, May 26, 2008 I spent the day largely behind one sander or another. I began again in the cockpit, where I sanded Saturday's application of fairing filler around the support pads for the cockpit seats. This virtually completed the work here, but I decided to install some small bits of fiberglass tabbing to help secure the bottoms of the angled cockpit supports; later on, once the resin securing the tabbing had cured to green state, I applied a final coat of fairing filler over the cloth so that I could sand it all once more and call it complete. I also filled the brad holes in the quarter round molding alongside the cabin trunk with a puttylike mixture of epoxy and mahogany dust. |
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I spent most of the rest of the day sanding a variety of wooden parts--the glued-up cherry panels for the chainplate covers and forward cabin sole, the old tiller, and, most notably, the strips of Spanish cedar for the hull ceiling, rendering the ceiling pieces ready for installation. In and amongst these tasks, which occupied most of the day, I applied a sealer coat of varnish to the previously-sanded cherry fiddles for the cabin, and applied another coat of varnish to the aft deck hatch. |
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Once I'd completed all the sanding on the ceiling strips--fortunately, each strip required only that the top surface be sanded with 220, along with a slight ease at the corners--I milled up a longer section of toerail profile #4, which I'd created initially a few weeks ago. With this profile under serious consideration, it made sense to try out a longer section so as to get a better idea of how it truly looked on the boat. Using the older, smaller section as a guide, I recreated the profile in a scrap of ordinary 2x4 lumber. Afterwards, I sanded the section smooth, helping to better integrate the various components of this curvaceous profile, and applied a coat of varnish just to give the piece some color. |
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