Not a heck of a lot to report. Been tinkering on the boat, getting some odds and ends done. I replaced screws in the port cockpit stowage bin piano hinge with rivets, the screws had been used years ago and caused binding at the hinge. I have no idea why I put up with this till now, but I did. Then I re-installed the compartment into the opening, ( I had removed it for access to the under side of the gas fill deck plate). Now the door closes properly,
Still need some cleaning,
I notched the battery box lid for clearance from the rod locker so I can mount it a bit further to Port for better access to firewall mounted equipment,
Primed and painted,
I mounted the trash can compartment,
I removed the old abandoned copper hydraulic steering lines from behind the Starboard wall cavity and the engine space and I secured the hydraulic hoses properly,
I also secured all the loose wires, etc. in the wall cavities and in the engine space, just to neaten things up a bit.
As for the wall treatments, I will be using nautolfex on the head walls, but I'm still not sure about the rest of the walls. The problem is mostly at the front, the area around the windshields. Nautolex, and other products like it need the joints and edges to be secured mechanically, and I can't see how to do that in the front of the boat. I'm actually starting to lean towards paint. The joints in the plywood are glassed together, so I'd need a primer that would stick to fiberglass and to wood. Then a couple coats of some kind of good oils based paint and voila, I'd have washable, light coloured walls.
And I have decided to replace the headliner. Something I've never done, so more learning coming up.
