Boat in a Shed - Part 1

 

At the end of October, we moved off Cygnet for 3 months and she ended up in a shed, warm and dry for a few months!  We finally decided that we needed to do the last big piece of work on our 40 year old project boat and remove the teak decks and fix any deck rot issues that were found.  We're now coming into mid-December and it's been a bit of a roller coaster.  

The mast came off OK, but then we found a crack at the boom end fitting for the boom vang.  It's been there for some time, and in fact is was there when we had the complete rig re-done.  The company that did the work, simply ignored it and painted over it, pretty shoddy work!  We're hopeful its an easy fix (it should be) 

Thankfully, the team working on Cygnet's deck are fantastic (shoutout to @BlacklineMarine) and looking out to try and keep costs within reason.  Next issue was the getting the teak off.  The builder used silicone to seal the teak to the deck then added several hundred screws.  The teak came off in small pieces most places.  This meant more labour to scrape the silicone off the underlying fibreglass so the non-skid paint will stick, of well...

We then got to the good news, bad news, not to bad news part of the re-fit.  The good news first.  It initially looked like there was not too much damage to the deck core beyond what I expected (I knew there was some).  A few days later, it began to look like we would have to re-core the entire deck (ouch, big ouch!)  The following week, we were back to the first view.  Not so bad.  Where we thought there was water damaged core, it was de-lamination of the core material with the fibreglass, an issue that is fixed with epoxy injection.  

So here we sit, it's mid December, the work is proceeding, and we're hopeful to get back in the water mid January.  

Look!, No Teak