Oxidation Blues

I started cleaning up the hull this weekend. There is more oxidation than I thought, started off using cleaner/wax, then polishing compound and now polishing compound with scotch brite. It's easy to see where I started, look on the right side of the photo.

Seats are air boxes, no deck plates, aux mount

Change in plans, I found out from the folks at The Sailboat Store in Austin that the seats are air boxes for flotation.

Plan B: I won't install deck plates in the seats, I'll drill another set of holes in the Aux bracket instead and reinforce it with an aluminum plate

The Catalina rep says the transom is reinforced with plywood. My tap test didn't find any dry rot yet.

Bottom Up!

The boats off of the trailer so the fun begins;

Clean up the hull

Replace centerboard gasket 54" long and 2 1/2" wide, each gasket is about 1 1/4" wide.

Reinforce port and starboard chain stays

Clean up or redo repair to stern gelcoat.

Fix the trailer lights

Install a winch on the trailer