Progress Update: November 21st

(Mary cleaning lockers on the upper deck)

The boat has been moved to a new location about 30 miles from our previous spot. Much cheaper rent with 40amp power and water included. Very grateful!

Now that its cooler, the upper deck lockers, cushions and covers are getting a good cleaning. These had not been touched since the fire due to time constraints when we first started working on the boat and were not yet living aboard. And due to lots of wasps nests, we had to wait till summer was over. And being in Louisiana, that meant it was hot up to about 8 days ago. 

Eric is making progress on the pocket door to the work shop and the last of the large hallway closets has been painted. He is still doing side work so we can accumulate funds for our personal support over the next year. He should be wrapping it up in a while and will then be working full-time again on the boat. 

Mary prepping the hallway closet

The closet needing a bit more cleaning before we can paint.

The pocket door ready for inner panels

 Eric doing temporary install of the pocket door

Varnishing the insert for the top inner panel of the pocket door

 

The table area on the upper deck

 Smoke and soot residue on the inside 

of the lockers on the upper deck. 

Upper deck covers were all salvageable and just needed a good scrubbing. 

 These cushions will be getting scrubbed in a few days and behind them under the cover is the last area on the upper deck needing to be cleaned from the fire.

The old name and hailing port came off easily with a good scraper and alcohol cleanup for the residue. 

 The termites made a resurgence 

but it looks like we stopped them again. 

Hopefully for good this time!