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The entire interior will be removed down to the bare hull.  Whatever can be saved for another use will be, but there is limited material worth saving.

Update 1:  7 January 2003  |  Update 2:  28 April 2003  |  Update 3:  25 May 2003  |  Update 4:  3 June 2003

7 January 2003

Interior demolition began on a whim on a sunny winter's day.  I went up on the boat to check whether or not I could easily remove the salon backrests for a friend, and ended up grabbing some tools and beginning the demolition of the interior that very afternoon.  In about an hour, or perhaps an hour and a half, I removed the galley module, much of the icebox, all the teak trim pieces in the salon, and most of the wiring in the salon and engine room.

With several feet of snow piled up outside, and nowhere to store the junk, I threw it all up into the vee berth for the time being.  Later, I'll throw it all outside to the ground and sort through for any usable stuff.  Most of it will end up in the weekly trash pile, though.

There's much more to come, demo-wise, but this was a fun start.  

	I was devastated to have to rip out this clever plaque from the salon.  NOT!		After removing some of the teak trim and fiddles from the settees and the shelf, I removed the galley.  It came out quite easily with some persuasion.
	Here is the galley module after removal--still in one usable piece.  The sink cover rear hatch cover are still on board, but are somewhere in the junk pile in the vee berth.		I was even able to rip out (by hand) the partial bulkhead at the forward end of the galley.  And people wonder why you shouldn't use polyester resin for secondary bonds...
	Next, I started on the icebox.  The countertop was already loose and lifted right off the front panel came off easily with a pry bar.  I'm making no attempts to save any of the icebox junk.		More delicate work with the wrecking bar removed the side panel, revealing the open-cell Styrofoam insulation inside the icebox.  This stuff is worthless.
	I ripped and tore at the icebox, pulling off piece after rotted piece.  As was the case in #381 Glissando, the icebox proved to be rather difficult to remove, and since I didn't have electricity run to #100 at this time, I stopped for now.		I also cut and removed most of the wiring and other stuff from the engine room.  Once the icebox is out, I can remove the exhaust system, disconnect the fuel system and gear/throttle linkages, and unbolt the engine for removal.
	I created quite a pile of junk up in the vee berth.  It's as good a collection area as anything, but eventually I'll get this stuff off the boat.		I also removed the ancient cockpit coamings.  They came off easily once I removed the screws holding the blocks to the cabin trunk and a couple token screws, but fell apart when I took them off--total junk, though I'll save them for scrap wood if I find any parts that aren't full of dry rot.

Sometime later, I returned and ripped out the rest of the icebox with more physical persuasion.  I forget when I did this.

28 April 2003

The sun was out, it was warm--what a pleasure after a really lousy week before.  I started the day doing some varnish work on #381 Glissando, and, with that done, needed something else to do, so I decided to collect all the junk from inside the daysailor and throw it down onto the ground, clearing the way for further demolition.

At first, I just folded back the aft part of the cover, figuring I'd leave it on.  It was hot out, and very stuffy inside the boat without any ventilation.  I got to thinking about it, and decided that it was stupid to kill myself inside a blue hothouse, with no compelling reason to actually leave the covers on. What, exactly, am I trying to protect?  The whole deck and interior will be removed, so if any of the wood gets wet--who cares?  So I decided to remove both tarps.  It was nice to expose the boat again...well, sort of.  I can't wait to move it from where it sits--it's way too prominent from the house, and was never intended to stay where it is for very long.  When Glissando goes in the water soon, I may just move the Daysailor to that spot for now.

Pictures tell the demolition story better than I could, so here we go:

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