This is the first stages of sanding down the hull of this Morgan Giles 30 a hard sanding to get rid of the old paint on the hull. It is a long a mind deadening job sanding the surface of a boat. However, once you get back to a surface that is good then the hours sent sanding it down just drift away and you start to look at the areas that need filling and fairing down and the hours of long boarding to come before you are ready to apply any meaningful paint back on the hull to get it to look like a new boat once more.
The other job to do over the coming weeks is the filling and fairing the decks of the boat which over the years as had its fair share of bangs and bruises and the deck is in a bit of a worse for wear condition. So the first job was to epoxy primer the whole deck and leave it to cure for a couple of days and the towel on epoxy filler over the decks in the low spots and dents and then get to work with the sanders to fair the deck back to a reasonably smooth and fair deck once more.
The cockpit was one area that was damaged in a number of areas on any corner that could be hit and the gelcoat split or crisped
The side and upper deck were not as bad as the foredeck or the cockpit, however there are areas which need attention where there were stress holding in the past
So from now on only over shoes to be used on deck and no outdoor shoes aloud.
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