Spent a few hours yesterday removing more hardware from the boat. There isn't too much left at this point. Still have the stbd stanchions, both pushpits, the pulpit, the winches, and a handful of other things that I'll have to remove the tarp to get at.
In the process of removing a lot of the older fittings, I discovered that most of them were installed using an elastic sealant. Well that's just great because around every single one of those fittings, guess what I found. Thats right, black, soft balsa. I will not be repeating this mistake.
Going up into the mountains today, but tomorrow the plan is to get some PVC pipe and fittings and try to set up a better frame for the tarp. My current tarp setup does not give enough clearance for air flow along the port side, and there is no way that I'll be able to do the cutting and re-coring with so little clearance.
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