Deck renovation.
I’ve started deck renovation.
First step was to remove all plywood and mahogany bits which were on the boat - material rests from winter projects.
It was quite a pile. To avoid going back & forth on the ladder I figured I will put all material on the deck side and grab it from ground just by standing on a small table beside the boat.
That worked well until last bit of wide plywood. While holding it I lost balance and fell from the table on my back. Worst of all the plywood edge hit Kaika’s freeboard, causing deep dent…
I’ve informed Jim about the accident and we talked about possible repairs when he came to the yard. In the end, after consulting with Börje, it ended up on filling the dent with varnish. Eventually we will glue mahogany plug in this place to close the dent nicely.
Sorry Jim!
Back on the deck I removed all metal fittings and started scraping old, anti-slip paint. The best way was to use blade, followed by orbital sander with 40 or 60 grid paper. Work went good but then I reached front cleat.
I noted already last summer that it is peeling coating from mahogany so it was high time to wood it.
Unfortunately, the cleat is not varnished but covered with epoxy. It makes hell of the job to wood it with scraper. Heat does not work equally well as on varnish so one is left only with sharp blade and brute force.
By the end of the session the cleat was almost entirely wooded. My time run out for today, on my next visit I’ll finish scraping it and will sand smooth the wood.
The plan is to saturate it with Owatrol. Varnish will not last here too long - with mooring lines scrubbing the surface - and epoxy will give me another headache few years from now. With Owatrol I will just oil it few times per season and that should do the trick.