November 5, 2024

Danusia Phase 2-2

Tuesday

Now that the staging was set up, I planned for my first task to be working on the brightwork, or perhaps more accurately the work formerly known as bright.  I’d stripped and refinished the extensive teak woodwork for the owner 10 years before, and he admitted to having a problem keeping up with it after a year or two.  Now, the finish was in poor condition in most areas, with many bare areas heavily weathered, as seen in the photos posted in the September 30, 2024 post and the video below.

Before getting to work on the actual stripping and sanding, I removed whatever hardware I could, starting with lowering the anchor to the ground so I could remove the roller, and then resecure the chain out of the way for now.

Around the coamings and taffrail, I removed various dodger fittings, several bronze coaming cleats, flagpole socket, some bronze half-0val trim from the aft coaming, and the boarding ladder (this mainly to allow better access, though it would have had to be removed for painting the hull anyway).  I also removed the mainsheet tackle  and otherwise made early preparations for the work to get underway.

Finally, I removed a small anchor roller from the port side of the anchor platform, at the owner’s request.  This small roller, located at a strange angle, was never used.  I planned to seal up and bung the fastener holes.

Total time billed on this job today: 3.25 hours