We hope everyone has battened down the hatches and is ready to ride out the storm. Boaters are a resourceful bunch. Set the watch and take care. We have doubled up all lines and will entertain the usual visitors with mess abouts as they present themselves.
Big news, the grapes are coming in.
Mast step had some resin chips, so we repaired the chips with THIXO thickened epoxy.
Now on to rivets. The deck edge and trim should have nice clean holes like this.
Unfortunately sometimes the trim has been drilled all the way through, steel rivets have been used or rivet remnants remain. This has to be cleaned up and rivets replaced with aluminum rivets.
Here's our riveting video about rivets.
The fiberglass Sunfish built 1960 to the mid 70s also have rivet nuts for the coaming.
Rivet nut video.
She's off the Finishing Dolly and ready for rigging!
Log of WAVE.
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