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The very first thing we had to do when we bought the boat was replace the deck. The plywood used in the deck, trunkhouse cabin, and bulkheads was substandard: story goes that the plywood manufacturers got a bad batch of glue... We made the deck rebuild part of the purchase deal and hauled out at Canal Boatyard. This story could take some telling, but the short version is that it took 2 months to complete the job. Meanwhile, a Fred Meyer opened up and took over all the land around the boatyard for a parking lot. Nothing like living in a parking lot for 2 months to make you humble - unless it's replacing the deck on a boat you're also living on, in the middle of the rainy season in Seattle. We didn't get very many pictures of the actual de- and re-construction. Most of those we did get were on high speed black and white film that we never got around to developing. This picture is of me, the day before we went back in the water. I was sick as a dog and not so happy to be doing heavy sanding.
I had to do such heavy sanding because the deck wicked the water at the bulwarks. We made the deck one inch short of the side of the boat and filled the space with a 1x1 piece of solid mahogany. This will keep that kind of moisture wicking down in the future. After we were back in the water, we needed to paint the new deck. The deckhouse side was in really hard shape, and some of the trim at the deckhouse/deck seam had gotten pretty ugly, so we decided to go ahead and paint that too. We gave it a good sanding, and...
A couple of primer coats, and...
Finished her off with Interlux White and Green.
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