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Done? Maybe. Maybe one more once we’re back in our regular (covered) slip.

So here we are Christmas morning, putting a second coat of floor finish down. The first coat looked fantastic and we are thrilled that all the prep is paying off. I didn’t take a photo until after we’d scuffed it in preparation for the second coat. So …

Yesterday we applied an oil “sealer” that really brought out the color of the wood. Today we are applying the first coat of finish!!!

Guess what I’m doing? No, BESIDES blogging… YES, sanding. Still working on the edges with 80 grit. Will we ever be done prepping? At this point, I think the answer is “no”. Sigh.

Well we were disappointed to not make as much progress as we’d planned to last weekend. We had a kind of a big deal Christmas present to purchase, something we’d spent weeks searching for, and we had a line on “the very thing.” Acquiring it and showing…

So here we are, ten days before Christmas. Are we at the mall finishing our Christmas shopping? Of course not. We are on the boat finishing our floors. Ok, not (re) finishing yet. Still preping. Matt is optimistic we will finish this weekend. I’m less …

So after a pretty full day yesterday of sanding the sole in the saloon, we had removed the finish from about two thirds of the floor and we were both exhausted. I only sanded for about an hour while Matt sanded for several hours but even just that hour…

We currently have the boat at our old marina, all the better to knock out a couple of projects. We’re having a little canvas work done by Keith McElroy, refinishing the sole (aka floor) and doing some work on the shower floor where water was seeping in…

Did you get any great bargains today? We had great weather and a great brunch with the ten relatives who joined us this morning. Matt made an egg bake with Ortega chiles. We also had lots of bacon plus scrambled eggs and waffles for the kids. We also h…