Vira - Sailboat rebuild, Irwin Citation 34

   Day out Had nice peaceful sailing afternoon. Wind  5-10kn, no unexpected gusts. our speed up to 4.5kn about a half time. Ready to go It is me ;-)  

Time to show  the new interior. Welcome on the board.     General. Almost all plywood in the interior replaced with couple exclusions - Port side part of main bulkhead, walls around the head, 3 panels left in galley cabinets and some solid wood trimming parts. New starboard main bulkhead mounted. Floor replaced with high quality hard PVC flooring.  All gelcoat (white) inside is slightly sanded to refresh it and clean of "ups" epoxy drops paint and 46 years weathering, polished and waxed. Galley New galley countertop, completely rebuilt all rebuilt galley cabinets. Added drawer under stove cavity. "cap board" rebuilt, shelves have roulette doors now, Big rolling out  drawer added under the cockpit sit. New combined electric panel. Icebox rebuilt to built in refrigerator. Microwave installed on the stove gimbaled shelf under the LPG cooking surface.  Plenty of 110V outlets  mounted to avoid any splitters.    Nav desk rebuilt, Installed na...

Cabin sole (day 178)   Sanded floor patches was done weekend before  To make clear cut on floor panels I made  plywood (actually laminated MDF) templates based on paper templates I had made week ago. Then fit them to place using jigsaw and orbital sander to meet all curves of the recesses on the FG floor.  Easy to say, not easy to do. it was about 10-15 try-cut-sand-try-cut-send cycles per each of four pieces. Templates after they was fit to places. Based on my pretty short experience I found several areas on the cabin sole are uncomfortably slippery due to they are just glossy gelcoat.  I decided to put no-skid paint in these ares. All is ready to be painted with no-skid. Under cabin table.    Sloped floor part in the galley. Area under navigation desk. Sloped floor next to cabinet in front cabin.  Floor in the shower Cockpit  Pedestal guard, finally installed. Cabin sole (Day 179) Final flooring (wood areas) will be STAINMASTER London Sky...