“All major teak sanding operations on Evenstar have ended.”
Hopefully my prognostications will be better than some others in the past, but we have finished sanding all of the large areas of the deck. What is left is more detail sanding – lots of that, but all of the belt sanders have been taken off the boat since their job is done.
Generally when I say “We” it means “Chris”, it’s more of a Victorian “We” as I’ve been doing a lot more engine and mechanical work on the boat lately than sanding. Though I’ve certainly done a fair bit of that too. But yesterday the two of us raced the incoming weather system with both belt sanders to finish the last large areas of the deck that had not been sanded.
It’s looking VERY nice, though we have some detail work to do. Major tasks left include:
– Detail sanding, all those close areas that can’t be reached with a belt sander. Mostly with the Fein Multimaster or a small random orbital though some will be done by hand.
– Redoing the screwups. Areas with gaps, pockets, etc. need to be stripped and re-caulked. This will take less time than major re-caulking and we will mask carefully so finishing the reapplied caulk shouldn’t take more than razoring off the extra.
– Replacing teak bungs. Quite a few came out – in excess of 100 I would estimate. Some are quite shallow so we will have to back out the screws and countersink the holes before they can have new bungs put in.
– Lazarette covers and anchor locker. Since those areas were discrete from the deck we opted to hold off on them. They do need to be recaulked but that can wait a bit.
When those tasks are done, then the job is done! Except for the little bits of misses, skips, and unsanded spots I expect to be finding for the next five years.
Pictures when this rain goes away…sometime late next week!
