Saturday afternoon I did a bit more sanding and then primed the repairs in the cockpit of Dovekie. I had hoped to get a second coat on today but the rain prevented that.
Hopefully next weekend I'll get the cockpit painting finished. I did find another tiny area of rot at the edge of one of the seat top lockers but that should be easy to repair. No doubt there are others I haven't located yet.
Friend Gordon has run a sander over much of the cabin roof and some of the fore-deck so that is the next target. I'll do a quick pass over them with a finer sander, hand sand edges and corners and get some primer and undercoat on those pretty soon now. Here is a pic Gord took recently.
I found the problem with the house battery was that the new voltage sensing relay that was fitted with the motor didn't have its earth wire connected. A quick fix and I hope the long time spent mostly discharged hasn't hurt the battery too much.
I still need to sort the nav lights and the main sail reefing out but that shouldn't be too complex. I have made up new handrails for the cabin roof out of kwila. They have come up really nicely and are much more solid than most that are around at 65x35mm rather than 50x25. I'll bolt them through the cabin roof beams so they will be a lot more useful than the old ones that were just screwed in and getting loose.
I'll also remove the old job halyard that has been getting in the way a bit. The original fractional rig was replaced with a mast head roller furler so the old halyard is redundant. Sometime I'll need to figure out how to rig my spinnaker. If it was flown from the same point as the head of the jib it will be too small and there is no fitting for it at the mast head.
