Wherry Refinish - part 1

 Not wanting to sell the Cosine Wherry as a fixer-upper, I'm working on repainting the seats and trim.

The seats are just bolted in, so removal for a sanding and repaint was a matter of minutes.

 

I've begun scraping the gunwales.

Here's the bow sanded down to bare wood.  Why I constructed this out of several pieces I don't recall.  Anyone whose ever tried to force glue, putty, or paint into a hair-line crack knows it's near impossible.  So I took a dremel tool and widened the hair-line cracks to be big enough to accept an epoxy putty. 

Here's the transom knees.