Don't Tread On Me....Part 2 1/2..

Its been raining for days....not hard or pouring just enough to screw up any plans to do boat work...tomorrow it's supposed to rain pretty good and then Sunday is purportedly going to be sunny....so maybe that will be the day that we can move forward with this re-nonskid project.
Last time I showed you'all the teak removal process.....remember all that "pound and pry" business. Today lets take a look at whats under that teak.....you guessed it....screw holes, copious amounts of caulk in various stages of its life cycle, dirt, mold, water!!, and little insect-type creatures...yep..some kinda itty bitty little bugs....not termites or ants...I don't know?? Its all a mess though...take a look:

There was water under most of the decking. It hadn't rained for quite awhile when this portion of the cockpit teak was removed. The backside of alot of the teak was saturated ......I'll get some pics on the next section that going to be removed.

Don't know why some of these pics came out black and white instead of color???

The caulk in some places is pretty thick and in other it is non-existent....no caulk at all? On my boat the caulkers did a haphazard job when laying the teak; however, so far there has been NO water penetration into the plywood core that I can find, Hallelujah....so maybe they knew what they were doing

The hard part of this whole job is cleaning and prepping the fiberglass decks for the non-skid paint....actually it's not hard at all....just tedious and very time consuming.....scraping that caulk off the deck and out from in between the thousand little grooves in the fiberglass non-skid...whatcha do is assume a zen attitude, don't think of the magnitude of the project...go after it a small section at a time and when you get fed up with the whole process..........QUIT!! for the day....grab a brew and visualize your new decks.

This little section took about 30 or 40 minutes to get to the stage where it will only take about another 10 or so minutes to get it ready for the paint.....its not done yet...but almost.....next time I will have better photos and show you the tools that I use and kinda walk you through the whole process again.....weather permitting....until then...........

Take care my friends.....don't forget to hug your loved ones today.....matter of fact, I'm gonna go hug Tanababy right now........seeya