Barging on ANJA

We have been so busy, it is unbelievable. Up at 7am, breakfast then off to the boat. Frequently we need to go via a huge hardware store to buy the latest piles of plywood, stainless screws, paint strippers or more expensively, lots of new power tools needed to repair the disasterous roof.

The roof was badly made in the first place. We will not go into details, but as competent yachties, we have been rather apalled at how the roof was built and waterproofed. It is quite large, covering about 6 metres by about 3.8 metres.

There are lots of areas of rot and yesterday we decided to rip up 30% of the plywood, repair rot in some of the bearers and then replace the plywood.

We went through almost 10litres of paint stripper and also ripped off the gutters and a whole lot of wooden "stringers" (long pieces of wood battens) that were on top of fibreglassed joins in the wood. The fibreglass had delaminated and someone tried to fix the leaks with mastic goo. All this did was trap the water causing rapid wood rot plus the growth of much mould.

Anyway, we will post some photos so you can see progress. As of today, we are close to cutting two replacement panels and attaching them to the roof. Then we need to cut out around 10 other less serious areas of rot and replace them. Then seal all the joins and screw holes. We HOPE taht sometimne on Monday, we can apply a coat of epoxy resin. Then there will be a layer of epoxied cloth plus two more epoxy layers. We will finish upo with three coats of white paint. We should be able to walk on the finished roof and it should also be waterproof and not trap water like before.

Here are some photos.

Regds,
Dave and Penny