Time to get her moved

Sorry about the lousy formatting. I haven't got the hang of the tools for this blog yet. It will probably get better.

My first 2 weeks on board were spent in the storage yard while waiting for a spot in the actual work yard. While you're not suppose to actually be working on you're vessel while in storage, the folks around here are pretty laid back and so I've been cleaning up which is OK with them.

After tearing out all of the wall coverings and headliners, getting the boat reasonably dry in the bilges. I started experimenting with different methods of attacking the mildew and glue residue on the walls. The boat's interior construction is basically a 3" layer of high density foam that was sprayed into the inside of the hull and then covered with 3/4" marine plywood to form relatively smooth wall surfaces. Since the builders intent was to cover the plywood with some sort of wall coverings, the plywood grain orientation didn't matter. Hence it must be covered again because grains don't match. It hit it with the sander using pretty aggressive grit and it worked just fine. Once the surfaces are prepared, I'll be sealing the wood with epoxy primer and at least they'll be clean and all one color until we determine how to recover them to a more pleasing effect.

Finally have a spot open in the work yard, the boys are going to move the boat.

This is kinda cool, in preparation, I've given the old girl a bit of a bath on the exterior. The pressure washer made quick work of most of the moss and lichen, some of it was pretty tenacious.