110 Cookson Lane | Whitefield, ME 04353 | 207-232-7600 | tim@lackeysailing.com
Without any significant bottom work remaining, and the owner visiting over the weekend, I thought it'd be a good time to paint the bottom. Earlier, the owner had chosen red paint, so after masking off the boottop I rolled on a coat of antifouling. I didn't have enough paint to do two full coats everywhere, but to avoid the need to retape later I applied a second coat along the waterline once I'd finished the first overall coat. Later, I'd recoat the remaining areas with a second coat.
I spent most of the remainder of the day working on various interior brightwork projects--the removable bits and pieces that I'd had down in the shop for some time. Beginning with the drawers and other pieces I'd stripped and/or sanded earlier, I cleaned up the surfaces and applied a coat of varnish. Not knowing how much finish was on the drawer fronts already (I didn't strip the drawer fronts because I feared it would damage the aging veneer, and they didn't really need to be stripped anyway), I decided I'd apply 2-3 coats of gloss varnish before switching to the satin varnished used elsewhere in the interior, depending on how the drawers looked after each coat.
To make varnishing easier, I screwed the hinge on the port pilotberth bunkboard directly to some of my staging, which held the piece vertical and allowed me to varnish both sides at once. Since I'd stripped and sanded this piece to bare wood, I began with a thinned-down coat of sealer varnish.
A pair of mahogany Dorade boxes were in good condition, with a couple coats of varnish already applied from some earlier time, so I sanded them thoroughly and applied the first of what would ultimately end up being several coats of gloss varnish, as these were exterior trim pieces.
Finally, I stripped the varnish from the mahogany fiddles on the two removable settee platforms, and sanded the bare wood clean to prepare for varnish. There were only a few additional pieces of woodwork still in the shop requiring stripping and/or sanding, and I planned to finish those up tomorrow.
Total Time Billed on This Job Today: 7 hours
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