A plethora of photos today! We will be feeling the rush soon, but more work keeps coming in everyday. Not sure how we’ll get done by spring but I think I say this every year about this time (I’ll have to go back and read previous year’s blogs).  We are installing a comfortable chair at the flybridge chair of a Grand Banks. We have done this many times now and have some techniques perfected. The standard procedure is to put a hole through the lid of the existing seat (which has the locker below). You need to mount the pedestal on a flat surface and the floor of the flybridge has an obvious camber to it. This means we need to create a flat, strong surface to hold the pedestal.

This looks a little dramatic, but with a little shaping we can match the camber exactly (and with the help of a little luan template).

And here it is tucked away inside the seat with the pedestal sitting in place.

The seat will be mounted on the pedestal where it protrudes from the seat lid. If not needed, it can be removed and the cushion put back for a standard GB seating arrangement. Of course, where would you stow that big chair?

The Legacy is now blue – Majestic Blue to be precise. He will probably buff this out a bit to enhance the shine – that’s why we use Awlcraft 2000.

The barrier coat has now been applied to the bow thruster hole. Just a bit of sanding and we will be able to paint that when the rest of the bottom is painted.

Up above, they are compounding and polishing the superstructure. I think the owner will be very pleased as he just got the in the fall and has never seen it as it should look. A lot of people revert back to wax after a good polish job and then find that it pales in comparison to the polymer finish. Wax is a bit of a dirt magnet.

They are up to coat 6 (I think) on the cap rails and man are they beginning to shine. A couple more coats and we can put the stainless rails back on.

Mid Week Pick Me Up I have my annual physical tomorrow morning. I think I’ll change to this guy!