Cosine Wherry fix-up completed

 The seats and hardware have been re-installed.  This completes the work I intended to make it ready for sale.  I won't call it a complete refurbishment or anything near making it 'like-new'.  It's 28 years old by the way.  The keel and bottom-paint need more work, but not enough to prevent it from going in the water.  

The oars are padded with foam backed carpet pieces to protect my new paint.
 

For those wondering about the uprights in the middle of the hull from previous pictures, they are not only center supports for the seats, but provide for the rowing foot braces.  These were custom made for me by a machine shop out of aluminum and the two sides screw into each other with a large bolt.  The uprights have 5 holes in them to adjust for the length of the rower's legs.

 Also note the 'cabinet-bolts' adjacent to the oar-locks that prevent the strain of rowing from busting out the oar-locks and splitting the gunwales.

 

Varnish completed.

 The varnish completes the work I intended to do to get the boat ready for sale.  I had never planned a complete refurbishment to bring it back to being 'like new'.  I just didn't want to sell it as a 'fixer-upper'.

 I'll give this a week or two to completly dry/harden before putting the seats and oar-locks back on.

 

Trim Paint Completed

 I took a vacation day and made it a long weekend to accomplish the painting.  Last weekend saw the final bit of sanding completed.

Masking took the first morning with the first coat completed in the afternoon. 
 

The next day began with giving it a light sanding to rub off the burr's raised up by painting bare wood, then the second coat followed by a third coat on just the easy to roll-on surfaces.

The fore-deck looks pretty good considering what it had looked like.

Even with using good painter's tape, which is supposed to have a light adhesive, the tape pulled up a lot of the old varnish.  This made no difference on the inside since I'm going to give it a new coat anyway, but on the outside just under the gunwales suffered and will need a touch-up.