Late Remarks

Here are a few pictures showing how she looked when I started the project in September:

Doesn't seem too bad from here.

Maybe a little weathered...

Yes, Perhaps

So she needs a little work - it's not like that's a surprise. After taking up the floorboards, benches, CB trunk cap, coamings and everything else we could get a screwdriver or a drill on, we realized what some of you must have been chuckling to yourselves about for a while now: refinishing a large wooden object is a shocking amount of work, especially when you start in September and want to get on the water before winter. Did I mention that it's easy to underestimate how much work there is? She wasn't even close to being ready by the time it got too cold and dark to work regularly outside. But progress has been made, and the new (more realistic) target is spring 2008.

One other thing I haven't mentioned: there are several frames that turned out to be completely shot - rotted all to pieces. and a couple of soft spots in the deck right up near the stem. Oh well. It could be worse, since replacing the bad part of the deck can be done the same time we add some structural members for the new bowsprit. Shame about the frames, though.