This Spring we spent two weeks under a blue tarp in Sitka's boatyard.
Dean Jackson re-corked at least 200 feet of seams, mostly in the stern where we'd had leaks every since purchasing the Gold Dust. He also made a cement patch for the bottom of our keel where a previous owner had hit a rock.
A shipwright refastened part of a plank at the stern and put on a new piece of iron bark for us.
We tuff-flexed the top of our pilot house and re-caulked half our deck seams and every other piece of wood above the water line. We must have used 20 tubes of Sikaflex. We sanded the hull, pilot house, and decks to almost bare wood, primed, and painted everything with multiple coats. All told it was 10 days of preparation and 4 days of painting.
Products used:
Interlux topside Enamel - White, Grey, and Blue.
Z-Spar deck paint.
Sikaflex 291 fast dry for filling seams above the water line.
Tuff-flex deck sealer (applied mostly with a squeegee).
Re-coarked and caulked seams:
Last day in the yard (the rest we finished in the water):
-Jon