This almost record dry March has allowed me to keep at sanding SWALLOW’s topsides. At first this project was going to be few touchups … but once started the project has grown. Yeah, a common story with boats!
I’ve been working steadily at getting primer/filler above waterline in preparation to but on fresh paint. The hope is I’ll be able to get a finish coat of paint done before the weather pattern changes.
Still coming is the below waterline antifouling. I’m still waiting for the paint as what I’ll be using, Hydrocoat ECO, isn’t available locally. There is also prepping the bottom before painting: remove rust from keel shoe, seal the steel, and then primer. Also want to do some fairing in a few locations, followed by more primer. I’m also raising the waterline.
Between sanding and priming I’ve done some electrical reworkings: removed the never used stereo & speakers, installed a new group 27 battery (replacement of an old group 24) and put the VHF on its own circuit so I don’t need to run the depth sounder at the same time.
I’ve also, I hope, repaired the companionway leak. I’ve filled a couple of cracks with epoxy.
Each night after a full workday I sleep well!
S/V Swallow 
Boat looks great Dave, she’s going to be beautiful!
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After sailing and maintaining both fibreglass and now wooden sailboats, do you find any preference for one over the other?
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About the same amount of work just different types of work. I’m also simplifying some of here brightwork by allowing varnish to fail on some parts and converting them to teak oil protection. SWALLOW is cold molded so more like a cored fiberglass boat than a planked wooden craft. That she doesn’t sweat as much as fiberglass, not at all since early April, was one of my main motivations as I’m living on the cool Salish Sea.
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