January 29, 2025

Danusia Phase 2-20

Wednesday

The top side of the pedestal table still required a few more coats of varnish; I’d done both sides at once through three coats, but then I’d worked only on the back side to bring it up to the required six coats.  So now I applied a fourth coat to the top side of the table, and also took the opportunity to apply one freshen-up coat of varnish to the inside faces of the swashboards. just to spruce them up.  I’d not stripped these faces, as they were in good condition, but just a little scratched up from use.

On the boat, I reinstalled various hardware I’d removed for the varnish and deck projects, and reinstalled and secured the lower lifelines.

Now I was ready to shift focus to the hull, and to that end I began to drape plastic sheeting over the decks for protection.  I left the cockpit exposed for the moment, as the owner was coming up the next day to hook up a battery charger, so I’d finish up the sheeting a little later in the week and be ready to get to work on the hull next week.

But getting as far as I did meant that I could dismantle the staging from deck height and reassemble things at a level suitable for hull work, and from which I’d finish the deck masking when the time was right.

Total time billed on this job today: 6.5 hours