Sanded for 4 hours, bottom hull is back to gelcoat now and old patches are cleaned up, ready for touch up paint.
Skipper came up with a great idea to hoist SUGAR 2 and flip her, then lower onto the dolly for a Float Test. It was incredibly easy to lift the boat and one person can roll the boat in the slings. Keep the lines about a third in so they don't slip off the ends.
Float Test. No major leaks, had a small seeper come from under the cockpit.
DId an air leak test on SUGAR 2 to track down the leak. Taped up the splashguard and inspection port holes, pumped low pressure compressed air into the hull through the forward bulkhead vent hole...that is AFTER Skipper discovered that someone had epoxied the hole closed. Found 3 small leaks, one 2 inch area on the keel, a small hole in the daggerboard trunk and a short section of the deck/hull seam.
Forward wall of daggerboard trunk, bottom of hull.
Added a 4 oz strip of fiberglass cloth to the keel, bedded in Pettit Flexpoxy.
Used half a paint stick to apply FLEXPOXY to the hole in the daggerboard trunk.
Back on the work dolly, rolled and tipped the second coat of Kirby #4 Orange.
Log of SUGAR 2.
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