Searing Scorching Saturdays Don't Hold Up Progress

There's no getting around it.  These steamy scorchy days outside, even if you're on the water, well, they seem to want to choke the fun out of everything. But in spite of it, and the threat of thundershowers, six Volunteers mustered on Saturday morning to tackle some long-term ongoing projects and advance them further towards completion.  

The choice of projects to lay onto was constrained by availability of our supplies, much of which needed to be restocked. So, Bryan split up teams to the cap rails to continue additional coats of  Deks Olje D2 varnish, and to scraping and sanding the remaining cap rail scarfs to prep them for their first coats.  Fred Jourdan, and Steve Boone each took one side, starting at the knightheads, and working aft to apply a 10th coat on the cap rails all the way to the main shrouds. 

Danny Johnson takes an orbital sander

 to the aging coats of varnish 

 Meanwhile, Danny Johnson, Layne Carver, and Ken Fonville grabbed scrapers, heat guns and orbital sanders to the port side aft cap rail, taking the old sun-burned varnish layers down to fresh sapele mahogany, before starting to smooth it with finer grits. By the time for a lunch break, they had taken down 15 feet of cap rail to smooth bare sapele ready for the first coats of D1 sealer, as soon as it gets delivered.

Being done with the sun, Fred, Danny, and Layne hung around with Bryan under the awning to focus on some knot skills, and trying their hand at an eye splice.  

 

Ken Fonville chooses the smarter option,
 kicking back in a lawn chair while scraping varnish.

Thanks to Layne Carver for the photos.