Blisters and crazing
Ground out blisters, filled, faired the topsides. Crazing round the old cleat bases came out with the hardware.
Still to do: paint, then rig and hardware. Roughly 48 hours in so far against an estimate of 30.
O'Day Daysailer · restoration
O'Day Daysailer restoration
by Example Logs
· boatbuildlog.com
An example restoration log. Shows how a restoration diverges from a new build: survey and teardown first, and a scope that grows once you open things up.
This is an example log, not a real project.
It exists to show what a useful build log looks like — dated entries, tagged to a step,
with hours recorded and mistakes written down. The technique in it is illustrative;
don’t follow it as instruction, and check anything structural against your
designer’s drawings. Its hours are excluded from the site’s median figures.
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Apr 2025
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