Redwing refit

'Pintail' our National Redwing dinghy is thirty years old this year and in preparation to celebrate her birthday she's getting a re-varnish and spruce-up this spring.

All the interior gear, floor-boards, buoyancy bags and fittings have been stripped off and the hull given a good wash and scrub inside and out...

.. Followed by the labourious task of flatting back the varnish. For this I'm using 180 grit paper.  It's a bit coarse for varnish re-finishing normally but on the fiddly and rather rough bits that are normally out of sight I feel that getting a good 'key' for the new coats is preferable to use a coarser grade.  They say that varnishing is 90% preparation, 10% application; how true that is.

That's all just for now; got to get on with rubbing down...