Our Lake Life: Work continues...and continues...and continues...

Another weekend has come and gone while trying to get finished with the sailboat. We made some headway and some victories were had along the way!

Brightwork:
I was able to get the top sides washed, de-oxidized, polished and waxed in the areas that wood was to be reattached. Really just got the dog house done.

After two days of solid work, we only had time to mount the companionway hatch front/pull handle, slides, handrails. There appears to be a problem with the hatch boards fitting, we will have to modify them to fit :(

Bowsprit:
I was able to fabricate some blocks of wood and wedge them into the bow coated with epoxy resin after sealing up the holes in the bow left from the original bowsprit's fasteners. This would give us the opportunity to screw through the sprit, into the bow of the boat and have the screws contact something more than just fiberglass. Luckily it worked!! It was never a precise fitting piece anyway and it appeared they had simply just filled the voids with sealant. So we did the same. It seems very strong.

We were able to create the anchor roller by cutting the ends off a 4" bow roller and epoxying them together. Add some bushings to the sides and it's perfect!

I decided to polish up the schaefer made stainless steel strap that was attached to the broken sprit and reattach to cover up the ugly bung patches i'd made, plus it would help reinforce the bow portion of the sprit.

We only have to attach the dolphin striker to it and it's a done deal. Should be strong enough to support the mast now too!

All in all, it was a lot of work but we see the end in sight. It will be nice to get our garage back. I finished the epoxy work on the rudder for now but we ran out of time to remount to the boat. Next time.

Corey was kind enough to wash the hull with the detergent/bleach mixture. I'll buy a larger buffer/polisher and start up on that next time as well as the rest of the top sides done.

We still have to mount the engine mount to the transom, hopefully that will be accomplished next work weekend we have as well.