Beginning my 1987 Fisherman 20 Restoration

[Myfathersson]

Time to catch this thread up. I opened her back up the beginning of July. Pulled out the mothballs and pulled the cap back off:








Started off piloting the holes where the foredeck hardware would be mounting so that I didn't lose the locations while fairing the area. Dixie was an eager helper:




Spent some time polishing the oxidation off the hardware I was reusing. Here is a side by side of the bow chocks before and after spending some time on the buffing wheel:



Man...I need to wet sand and buff my shop table...but I digress.


Decided the replace the original cleats with something a little more modern looking (and which are less likely to impale me):




Worked on patching the holes and other scars on the foredeck:




And while I was working with glass I worked on the myriad of holes at the back of the cap - speakers, rod holders, poorly located holes for controls, etc.:








And fabricated and glassed in a new anchor shelf:




Guess I didn't save any of the pics of fairing, and sanding, and fairing, and sanding, and more sanding and oh my lord am I restoring a boat or converting epoxy and glass to dust... I did note that the green color of TotalFair is a dead ringer for the Seafoam Green of the 1970's Cruisers Inc tri-hull my family had during my childhood years. Kind of poetic.


With the fairing completed I primed the foredeck, anchor tray, battery trays and the bilge:







More to follow! - Greg