The late afternoon was spent with a focus on interior work as well as ongoing exterior brightwork - bungs and varnish work. Having finished the varnish work to the interior fiddles, I grabbed the individual components with their fasteners and made my way to Biscuit's cabin. I had kept the fiddles separated (port and starboard) and with their fasteners. It was easy to identify the location of the individual fiddles by way of the unique spacing between the two fasteners, per fiddle. I laid them out first, followed by the effort to secure them with their fasteners. At the conclusion of the effort in securing them, I was short on fasteners for two of the fiddles - one was secured with machine screws and backing nuts (tossed these away), and the other was missing one of its wood screws. I secured what I could and decided to make a run to the local marine chandlery to secure the balance of fasteners required. At this point, I moved on to the hatch boards that were sanded and then stowed away in the aft two compartments on the quarter berths (port and starboard). I pulled them out and fitted them to their respective hatch and then labeled the underside with tape and a Sharpie. I removed them from Biscuit and set them to the side in the shop. While in the shop, I grabbed a roll of tape and a small Japanese pull saw, a roll of tape, and then headed back to Biscuit's companionway.

I folded a few layers of tape onto itself to act as a protective surface to cut the bungs standing proud on the installed companionway trim boards - tackling the cabin top trim first. One by one, I removed the majority of the bung material standing proud with the saw, followed by hand work to sand to fair. I cleaned up the cutting and sanding dust with acetone, and then applied a sealer coat of varnish. A couple additional layers of varnish will be applied to the entirety of the trim boards as the final effort in finishing off the brightwork.

Back in the shop, I spot sanded areas of the tops of the hatches, vacuumed them sufficiently and then prepped them for paint with an acetone wipe. With the same interior paint used within the cabin spaces, I applied the first coat of paint to the tops of the hatches. The bottoms were epoxy coated, and could not think of a better surface coating for the hidden underside of the individual hatches.

Over the next evening and a trip to the local chandlery, I procured various supplies and materials to address the interior fiddles, to the topping lift on the mast, to hose clamps + hoses, and a bilge pump. More to come for the evening of April 16th.

Total Hrs: 2.5