Just waiting to get her home to clean the rest and get her rigged.
Before and after
- Thread starter SailingLoto
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I've always been amazed what a pressure washer and twenty minutes can do . Looking forward to seeing the rest of the restoration.
I got her home to my dock. Gutting the interior and cleaning before I drop the mast to run a main halyard.
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The before and after looks fantastic!! Where did you buy that elbow grease? I should buy some too!
@SailingLoto makes many of us green with envy because of how quickly he can make an abandoned boat look better than most of our own boats!
@Ken13559 - Spray Nine is my new favorite cleaner. It's impressive how well it works. Autozone sells it for a reasonable price
@Ken13559 - Spray Nine is my new favorite cleaner. It's impressive how well it works. Autozone sells it for a reasonable price
Anchor locker drain hose had failed and filled the forward locker with water. Otherwise just a couple inches in the bilge and bit here and there in the lockers.
Try Totally Awesome. It's like $6.50 a gallon at Dollar General. Cut it with a bit of water. It cleans about anything. DG also sell these blue Mr Clean tile scrubbers. They don't scratch, but do a great job cleaning off mold/algae growth and scrubbing non skid clean. The hull sides and waterline on this boat were terrible. 3 gallons of muratic acid and $15 one gallon pump sprayer took all the stains and mineral deposits off.
I don't know about how quickly I clean them up, but I have about 30 hours of just scrubbing on this one.
Here she is with her mast on the dock roof getting a new main halyard, topping lift, masthead light, and spreader boots.
She was barely ever sailed. That's a brand new genoa from 1989. The sail cover was still wrapped in plastic.
We've sailed her 3 times now, 1 race day. We placed 3rd twice , 2nd once.
I still need to do a lot of maintenance and cleanup, make new cushions, and give her a bottom job. She's quite blistered from sitting so long.
All in all, she sails quite well, and cleaned up good enough for now. Not bad for a $500 boat.
She was barely ever sailed. That's a brand new genoa from 1989. The sail cover was still wrapped in plastic.
We've sailed her 3 times now, 1 race day. We placed 3rd twice , 2nd once.
I still need to do a lot of maintenance and cleanup, make new cushions, and give her a bottom job. She's quite blistered from sitting so long.
All in all, she sails quite well, and cleaned up good enough for now. Not bad for a $500 boat.
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Good job! Appears that you’ve found a diamond in the rough. Have you done the @Maine Sail restoration (compounding/polishing/waxing) on the topsides yet?
No, that will happen when I pull her out to do the bottom. She needs some love down there.... until then we will sail and enjoy her.