Interior and Teak

The interior is proving to be considerable work.  A lot of the marine plywood is getting replaced.  The foundation bulkheads and stringers will remain these are in relatively good condition and they'll get body worked, primed, and painted with a semi-gloss marine polyurethane paint.  I have reinforced the chain plates with some laminating plies.  Added a few areas of backing plies.  I still have the last area of decay to attack as well as the overlapping plies to add that tie in the fore deck patch.  It is quite cold and I have a space heater that warms the interior considerably.  There is no problem with curing epoxy or vinyl-ester.  There is a bit of loose paint to be sanded off and 90% of this work will be prep work before the paint.  I don't have a gun to shoot the paint on the interior and I'm planning on using a foam roller.  I will try a test area first to check the result but I think it will look nice.

Additional plies added to tie the original chain plates to the secondary added chain plate vacuum bagged into position.

Vacuum pump in cockpit, hose running forward.  I learned a new technique which works well.  Layup the plies on the vacuum bag on peel ply in the reverse order in the garage wet it out.  Lift the bag and apply the bag in place with butyl tape.  

Adding backing plies.

Not a lot of teak to re-finish but I have sanded the tiller down as well as the hand rails.  On the right is the new outboard motor mount.  I reverse engineered the original on which is behind the new one.  This was not worth salvaging.  I bought the teak from Rockler.  It was 40% off and this amount of wood cost 60 USD.  I don't want to take any short cuts on materials considering the amount of work I'm investing in the project.  I feel strong about sustainability and I'm looking for re-claimed teak.  Teak just works good for some applications.  The teak is prepped for varnish and all will receive 8 coats minimum.  I love the feel of teak you can still feel the oil in the thirty year old hand rails and tiller.  I'm not sure if the tiller is original but it is very nice.  I surprised there is not a tiller extension but I will be adding one.