Last weekend was my first dive into demolishing the old one.

I was wrestling with an old built in icebox I've looked forward to removing, for years when I took this photo, about mid weekend. There's little more than the bridgedeck left to remove, now. The cockpit sole - supported by 3 beams(see the pairs of posts?) - makes a decent staging. It will go out last.

I'm looking forward to (quickly) cleaning and painting the cockpit lockers, and re - installing the slats(some new, some old) and doing something with the surface delaminated plywood(not a structural bulkhead), maybe a quick piece of MDO adhered.

I love these big old lockers, they're even bigger with the icebox gone. I have a quality of life, thing, with big open cockpit lockers.

I enjoy finding these builder 'sketches', like this one that was hidden behind a panel(I look for them on the buildings I work on like a hobby). Title the artwork: Figuring out the steering in Denmark in 1960.

Metric thinking - english speaking, I'm imagining a Briton doing the work? The builder was concise, methodical, happy to do the work(you can tell), and quite artistic.

Times have changed: I click my Note App. 'thumbed' in, "Shifter location", and leave a photo of my doodle, in the note.

I also managed to 'squeeze in' , a grueling 1 and one half hour of constantly squeezing a caulking gun(hard!).

Pulling up the tape:

It takes 48 hours for the caulk to become dry enough to sand. With the taping, 80 grit goes fast.

In my haste, I took a nick out of the decking around the rudder head deck plate. It's all filled with compound - the plate now permemantly bedded. The flaw will remind me to, "slow down", whenever I glance at it.