Amatheia DE32
Winter was a slowing experience. The mast step repair was finished, a beautiful job by Todd at Charlot Marine. He found the rot to be more extensive than thought, extending up into the compression post a bit. The shower pan was cut out, the old fiberglassed mast step was removed, the bottom of the compression post was trimmed off and the new fiberglass wrapped mast step made to fit. The new post was tabbed to the floor, the shower pan was re-fabricated and a brand new, very cool piece of sole was created for the entire head. Gorgeous work and very well done.
Pursuing my favorite job of disassembly I removed the fuel lines for replacement and the engine cooling hoses for the same. I have a shaft/packing seal situation in that area, that’s a job for later.
In the garage some serious sanding occurred during the cold months. All the ceiling strips were sanded and re-stained. The brightwork was sanded and triple coated with Cetol Natural Light. the bowsprit had the same treatment. The handrails looked OK but needed quite a bit of sanding to shape the mounting holes damaged from fatigue combined with the bung removal.
Jon disassembled the Butterfly Hatch, sanded all the parts and we reassembled with 1/2 Plexiglas windows. Used the old gaskets, maybe it won’t leak. But I’ll make a Sunbrella cover for when it rains.
Snow fell and the temperatures got quite chilly. The diesel heater took some of the chill off.
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