It seems like I just went through a mad rush to get Spark seaworthy, now a month later, I have begun to strip her down for a full refit and restoration. All I have left on the top is the horse, cleats, and the splash guard, everything else, including the benches, centreboard trunk topper, and floorboards have been removed.
The beaching handles gave me a lot of issues, as did the genoa tracks, I actually had to break them as the nuts had frozen to the machine screws and were deeply embedded into the wood stringer out of sight and reach of hand. No matter, I needed to replace them with longer and newer ones anyway
I am hoping this week to bring her home again so I can begin sanding the hull down to bare wood. I did pull a screw from the ply, as Oliver said, it is a #6 and 3/4 of an inch in length. It came out far too easily, so I am thinking of upsizing to #8s in the same length for more thread bite on these 54 year old holes.







The amount of dirt behind the bags was eye opening, as was the sheer amount of room inside the boat once everything was pulled. So far I need to reproduce one of the floorboards, It has been cracked for a long time and my walking on it during my last sail put paid to it.
My goal is a May re-launching. I have a small vacation planned where I want to trail her down to Delaware and sail down the Lewis and Rehoboth Canal from Lewis to Ocean City Maryland and back
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