Wednesday, 22 June 2011

Butterfly hatches

I took off the hatches and brought them into the workshop to sand down and treat the timber.
The weather is right now a blistering 110º F and more during the day, with really high humidity, and it's not a lot of fun standing outside either sanding, or trying to varnish with your clothes sticking to you, and sweat dripping off your nose everywhere you look....


In order to make a proper job of the butterfly hatch, it's necessary to dismantle it and remove the bronze rods, so I thought I'd polish them up just this once!


I like it!

It's not a complete job - I plan to improve on the finish after the summer - I want to sail ! It's been six weeks now since I started the timber renovation!  I'm getting impatient.....

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