110 Cookson Lane | Whitefield, ME 04353 | 207-232-7600 | tim@lackeysailing.com
Picking up where I left off, I continued work on some of the cabin trunk trim, removing the handrails and trim from the port side. Then, I removed some trim and then the plywood ceiling panel (in traditional nomenclature, "ceiling" refers to a hull liner, not an overhead) outboard of the port settee, exposing the hull and some wooden support strips.
I started removing trim from around the under-deck cabinets on the port side, and it soon became clear that the entire cabinet unit had been built separately and then installed as a whole. Given this, and the fact that it was held in place with only a few screws into the adjacent bulkheads, I decided to remove the whole cabinet, after a quick email with the owner to confirm. Removing the cabinet would provide superior access to the deck hardware and aft chainplates, and in any event the cabinet itself would (at a minimum) require substantial work to restore.
The solid teak face frame came off on its own after I removed the trim and a few additional screws, and then I removed the cabinet itself. The cabinet was built of plywood with masonite back and top panels, and was nothing special. Although I saved the cabinet and face frame, at this point I thought it highly unlikely that it would make sense to replace these pieces intact.
With the cabinet out of the way, I hesitated for a pair of seconds before deciding to remove the wooden ceiling supports beneath the old cabinet's location; these were held in place with dabs of flexible adhesive (something like 5200), but came out easily. I saw no reason why keeping them would be beneficial.
I decided to stick with the port side for now. Beneath the port settee was a locker containing two old batteries, which I now removed, and I also removed an old depthsounder transducer in the space.
Moving aft, I dismantled trim and suspect cabinetry in the quarterberth and nav station areas, and stripped out all wiring and plumbing along the way. The trim here, and elsewhere in the cabin, was secured with an entertaining mix of larger and smaller flathead, Phillips, and Freason fasteners, so I never knew which tool to have ready at any given moment.
I removed several pieces of galley trim and cabinet doors, and also some of the baseboard trim at the bottoms of the settees and elsewhere. I also removed from the boat the bulky engine box. I'd removed the original Atomic 4 several months ago (I'll cover that separately in the near future).
Next, I repeated the ceiling and cabinet removal process on the starboard side.
Throughout the day, I bundled, labeled, and saved the solid teak trim pieces, and set aside other panels and cabinets for later evaluation.
Total Time on This Job Today: 7 hours
