More progress everyday. We are replacing the old abused teak wood around the cockpit and all the teak handrails. We’re replacing the hatch in the shower and installing a hatch in our berth (bedroom) yeah!
Teak is prohibitively expensive so we found some beautiful African Mahogany for the cockpit coaming. As with all exterior wood we install, it will get a nice coat of clear West System epoxy before installation. First we trace the old wood onto the new wood then cut it out. Old and new:
Old and new:
tracing:
New and new. It’s going to be beautiful once we apply epoxy and varnish:
Bob working on the new handrails. The original teak handrails were very skinny, undersized, neglected and abused so we are replacing them. The new rails are teak and almost twice as thick. We covered them in epoxy and will through bolt them to the cabin top:
Old and new:
Old and new:
We’re replacing the 30 year old hatch in the shower. Some of the cabin is plywood and some is balsa core. In order to keep wood dry we apply epoxy to the plywood, if it’s balsa we dig out a bit and smear in a super thick mixture of filler and epoxy. Above the shower:
Hatch above our berth! Yeah ventilation. Epoxy on the wood, filler on the balsa:
Tanya has been doing most of this! Drilling the holes to mount the new hatch:
New hatch in our berth:
Earth shattering! More later!