04 May 24:
Our mission today was to remove the remnants of fiberglass cloth and polyester resin from the dinghy's exterior and get down to bare wood, aka "wooding the hull." Most everything came loose when we peeled large strips of fiberglass loose in November, but there were a few bits left. 80 grit sabdpaper on the De WALT random orbital sander did the trick, as this wood is very hard Carribean Pine.
Warm again today, so we chose the shaded Quarterdeck.
There are little metal copper or bronze pins along one side of the keel, I think they might be remnants of fasteners from when the fiberglass cloth was added in the 1950s. Or they are part of a 1930a worm deterrent system...
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