My new-to-me 1981 42

Hi bob, I've been following your thread and have seen a lot of the same stuff you are running into. For the rollers, I used "Whizz" cabinet door rollers from Lowes. Interlux has a paint forum where their tech reps answer your questions, and they all recommend the whizz rollers. They worked great. They come in 6", 4" and 2" hot dog roller sizes.

So, here are the interior pics I promised. I'll start with the head. This boat had the worst green carpet throughout. Including in the head. One of the first projects I did last summer was to remove the green carpet and also buy a new raritan crown head, replace the flooring, replace the light over the mirror, and some varnish.

The green theme carried into the salon. Here are some before pics...

In the last picture you can see where the previous owner blocked the back of the windows out with wood and tried fixing the leaks from the outside, unsuccessfully with caulk.

Here it is, in progress...

And finally, here we are today with it.

I did the new carpet last season.

Also bought a new couch. Here's the old, and the new...

We spent the day enjoying the boat saturday with some friends. It was much needed. Then sunday i got back to work with a belt grinder and went to work on getting that nasty dark varnish off the covering boards. Still mid project with that, but i'll post some pics when i get close to completing.

Thanks for all the kind words. This is a great Post forum, my wife gets a lot of "ideas" from all of your pictures of Posts that have been updated.

I tried the heat gun method first and it was very slow going. The problem i was running into was that the teak was not well maintained for a number of years, and they used the dark varnish to cover the problems up. With the boards being slightly cupped very grainy beneath the varnish, my scraper, even with the heat gun, was having a hard time getting much product off without getting into wood. Either way i was going to end up with a lot of sanding, so i figured I'd just take it down with a belt sander from the start. I'm going to go with Semco teak sealer instead of varnish. Its my first go with it, so we'll see how it turns out. I've read about 10 different ways you can approach the teak, but I chose Semco, 25% because i like the natural teak look and 75% because it sounded like it would be the fastest and easiest process since we are already in June.

She's no sales lady. You see that clipboard next to her? That's a foreman!

Thanks for all the nice comments.

Shawn, do you know any of the history on the boat?

I was told it was owned by an older man for many years who was a die hard fisherman and even held some sort of tuna record in NY state for a while. Then he died and the widow sold it a few years ago, and i bought it from that owner through a broker.

I never verified the tuna record story i got from the broker. I just assumed it was bunk as with most of the other stuff he was telling me and the previous owner. He was the typical shady used car salesman type. I would have never purchased a high dollar rig from him. With this boat though, I knew what I was getting into.