The Beginning of the World's Longest Boat Project

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...

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.