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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.
5
Entries
48
Hours
168
Days elapsed
5
Photos
Apr 2025
Started
All steps Survey & Assessment Teardown Hull & Plank Repair Deck & Cabin Gelcoat & Glass Repair
Oldest first
Teardown 8 h

Everything off

Stripped all hardware, bagged and labelled by location, photographed before removal.

The photographs are the point. Six months from now I will not remember which of the three similar bolts came from where.

Illustration — example log, not a photograph.
Illustration — example log, not a photograph.