What God Hath Rot...let no man put asander

First job of the new year: clean out the stern section I so preposterously refer to as the "master stateroom." On a whim, I pulled up some loose appearing lino, only to find....


MORE ROT!


It's not too deep, but then neither am I, so there must be a cure. I shall allow it to dry out, then paint it with Kilz.

After that (actually, now that I think about it, before that), I removed the inverter (it was attached to the last remaining piece of the former lower bunks). This I will have to reposition after the bed frame is installed.

You can see some of the orbital sander patterns on the walls. I ran out of sandpaper, then my Bosch sander stopped. It simply stopped. I have no sander. It makes no sense to clean the coach before sanding, so for the time being I'm dead in the water.

Sigh.


Nevertheless, I did manage, whilst I had both sander and sandpaper, to do this (pardon the dust spots):


And this:



Looks good, eh?

As to the galley...it was only a matter of time before I removed the base cabinets. I did this in order to facilitate installing new paneling (yeah, right), as well as to clean out 30+ years of grime.



And that's it here at pun central, this second or third (I'm already lost, Lord help me) day of the year 2009. Thanks to all of you who have restrained your derision and even at times shown support for this insane Werner Herzog-like project. The odds may be impossible, but sometimes there's a man... But that's another movie.