January 9, 2025

Danusia Phase 2-5

Wednesday

Now that I’d removed all the old finish by scraping, it was time to finish cleaning up and preparing the wood with sanding.  Starting at the starboard bow, and the anchor platform, I worked throughout the say to sand all the teak with 80-120 grit paper, working my way down the toerail/rubrail, as well as the eyebrow trim and outboard side of the coamings.  I used a small palm sander where I could, and by hand as needed for tight areas, curves, and in particular the long lengths of headsail tracks along the aft quarter of the toerail, where the overhanging track prohibited access by anything other than hand sanding.

I continued around the taffrail, and up the port side from there, making it about halfway up the port side (to the forward end of the headsail track) by the end of the day.  I might have finished the port side (and had intended to), but lost an hour earlier in the day trying to fix (and succeeding thanks to hosting support chat) yesterday’s website upload problem (apparently I’d used up my disk space on my VPN, which was a surprise since I thought it was unlimited ( and was why I switched to a VPN some years ago)) since I couldn’t get hold of my web guru (who was supposed to be available for these behind-the-scenes things that I clearly don’t understand).  I’ll be looking for a new web guru from here.  (And now I’m done with the parentheticals.)

Total time billed on this job today: 5.5 hours