Spent most of the weekend working on the boat, which I pulled in front of the house for the weekend.
Saturday: First I pulled the tabernacle, jib & genoa tracks, forward hatch, and the halyard cleats off. That went ok except that I discovered the hard way that the genoa cars are full of little plastic bearings. I don't have a clue how to put them back in, so I sent an email to Garhauer. The weird thing is that the top doesn't have bearings, just the bottom. The top has a plastic skid of some sort.
After I pulled all the hardware I drilled the holes oversized (5/16) and then hit them all with the dremel & router bit. Taped the bottoms of the holes for epoxying. The only problem area was the Tabernacle. I needed to remove the compression post and it just didn't want to come out. By the time I was done the inside and outside of the boat were both a mess.
Knocked off around 5:00 PM. Stopped at Home Depot in search of glue syringes. Guess what . . they don't sell them without glue in them already!
Sunday: Started out in search of glue syringes at Coastal Farm. Got 3, 2 medium and one big one. Back at the boat I vacuumed up the worst of the mess and filled most of the holes with epoxy. The online folks at TSBB came through and clued me in on using a bottle jack & board to push up the cabin top and release the compression post. Worked great! I finished up a few holes that needed to be drilled, then filled the remaining holes with epoxy. I'll give it a couple days to set up good, and then I can start drilling new holes.
Need to sort out the hardware and make a run to Robnett's to get new stainless bolts & screws. That will be entertaining.
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