the fun begins - chainplates and lowers, and other things!

In for a penny, in for a pound.

A bad previous deck repair under my port aft stanchion led me to discover yesterday that about 4" of the hull-deck joint had some separation from the stanchion levering back and forth. So I removed a section of toerail to facilitate beginning that repair.

Then I crawled around inside and inspected the port forward chainplate, which is "weeping" inside the hull. The deck is a little "mushy" there and the chainplate wiggles.

Also, all of the chainplates have elongated holes from 35 years of use; not good.

This sealed my decision to re-do chainplates.

So now here is the project:

Interior:
Grind out the old chainplates
Laminate and glass in a new deck beam (while I'm at it. The old ones show some stress cracking)
Install compression post (slightly minimizing the pile of broken carbon windsurfer mast sections in my garage and providing minimal positive ROI on the $500 masts that I break every year or so...)
Fabricate and glass in "something" to tie in and back new chainplates
Interior glasswork on deck and hull-deck at port aft stanchion mount area

Exterior:
Already removed toerails on both sides (yesterday)
Grind hull-deck joint on whole boat, 3" down topsides and to nonskid on deck.
Glass tape, fill and fair hull to deck joint
Fix deck at two problem spots; stanchion and chainplate
Paint deck to non skid
Sand, fill, fair, paint topsides
Install new toerails
Re-install re bed stanchions, pulpits etc

As for the rig:
The boat was not designed with a tapered bendy rig with swept back spreaders and single lowers so yes, the doubles will keep it from pumping. Despite musing about this, I don't know that I want to redesign the whole rig!

So I'll wait for the next cold day and then have at on the interior. The colder the better, because wearing a respirator, ear muffs and goggles inside a little boat for a job like this is not something I want to do on a warm day!

Cheers

Dejan

PS, I know I've said it before but want to again thank all the people that are active in this forum. I truly appreciate all of the insights and experience!