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| Prying off the teak! |
After scoring the teak with a circular saw (yikes!), Kathy begins separating the teak from the subdeck with a pry bar and rubber mallet. It's hard to see teak being broken into a million pieces, being the original and knowing they just don't grow it like they used to. Since we're not reusing the wood, this was our best option (and a bit heartbreaking). There's no going back now...
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| Making way for the epoxy |
Once the teak was removed, we had to deal with the molded in cracked non-skid and 1,000+ screw holes. Our options were to grind the non-skid off or chisel it off. Being liveaboards and caring for the environment (and our own health), we chose to chisel it off. This proved to be a very labor intensive task but a good decision. In order to treat the delaminated plywood core with penetrating epoxy, we had to drill each screw hole out to a cone-like shape to receive the epoxy.
Hi Friends! Welcome to our blog! Our boat, Sunny 1 is a 38 foot classic 1979 Taiwanese trawler berthed in San Francisco Bay. She is an Ed Monk design "Eagle" built by Shin-Hsing Yacht Builders. She has a fiberglass hull with a single Ford Lehman 120hp diesel engine. She has an aft trunk cabin with two staterooms and two heads, sole and interior are teak and holly. We purchased her in 2003 and have lived aboard with a dream to some day "go cruising". We have made over 150 improvements and upgrades to her. Our biggest project to date is removing the teak decks which is still in progress. Let the cruising countdown begin . . .
