Well, I'm recovering from a pretty big setback. I tried finishing the mahogany deck with flecto varathane, which turned out to be a big mistake. It might be o.k. for furniture, but I just couldn't get the evenness to the finish I was after. Sanding it proved fruitless, as it seems to be pretty darn soft, and even appears to remain somewhat under cured under the surface. Tough and flexible, maybe, but it just didn't work out on the boat. So I wound up stripping it off, which proved to be no mean feat. Absolute PIA, really.
But, well, I think it "recovered" about as well as can be expected. I managed to gouge it a bit while trying to strip and scrape that damn varathane off, which was hugely disappointing. It's now ready to reassemble all of the hardware and running gear.
I'm still trying to come up with a name and a number. I don't want to recreate a real hydro. Suggestions are welcome.
