Well, certain things must be done, no matter how scary. The biggest question about any boat that comes with an engine is whether said engine will restart. Jim has pulled the injectors to see if the cylinders had water in them, and they were dry. Then he squirted in some transmission fluid and manually turned the engine over...hooray! The engine is free, not seized. Then we spun it over with the electric starter...hooray! All seems to be going OK. Onto the fuel system, maybe on a rainy, indoor kinda day.
This next picture is of the cockpit sole (floor), complete with a real manhole cover. While checking out the launching area in Tobermory, we took a stroll on that waterfront and peeked in some other boats...manholes seem to be a thing here!
Driving the caulking is best done in wee chunks. A section one day, another the next. With all the rain and cold weather we've been having, it's good to have a variety of indoor-outdoor jobs. And besides, my arms will seize if I put in a full day of this hard work! So we caulk a few seams with the cotton, then pay them (fill them) with paying compound, and every wooden boat builder has their own secret stuff. We are using roof patch. It's the blackest, stickiest plasticized asphalt you could imagine. Roof patch goes in...water stays out. The topsides will get a different paying compound, more about that when we do it.
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