After the excitement of rescuing the kitten this morning, the rest of the day was fairly boring in comparison! Jason was up top replacing our lifelines with new ones.  The old ones were rusting, shredded, bent, and just otherwise not safe anymore.  The new ones are synthetic Dyneema and have a breaking strength of like 8000lbs… which should be enough!

He only got one side done so far, but I’m assuming the other side will be tomorrow’s project.  While Jason was doing this, I was working on the hardtop.  The fiberglass will only bend around a certain size radius, so I took some triangle sections of foam and glued them into the corners of the lip that we put around the perimeter of the top.  Once this is sanded smooth, it’ll make putting the glass on way easier!

While the glue was drying, I went back inside the boat (into the AC) and played around in there.  The paint on the galley cabinets isn’t even close to being dry yet (yay, oil-based!) but that didn’t stop me from marveling at how freaking cool they look!

Suuuuper happy with how the galley is turning out.  It’s so bright and fun! ..but it makes the rest of the boat look so dreary! I need to paint some more stuff!

We’ve been experimenting with refinishing the floors and wood on the interior of the boat to see if we can polish it back up to where it needs to be!  The floors are a lost cause and I don’t want to put in the time required to make them pretty again.  The walls, however? Most aren’t too bad.  I scuffed the old varnish on the wall in our bedroom and put on a fresh coat of satin varnish, just to see what would happen.

So… I do think the fresh varnish helps. (I tried teak oil… it didn’t do anything except make the wood greasy feeling)  I’m not sure the color of the wood itself if that attractive though. I’ll put another few coats on the wall tomorrow just to see what happens.