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Today, I got a bunch of little things done. It rained last night so the ground was wet under the boat. I was not terribly inclined to go crawling under the boat to scrape some more. Yes, I am procrastinating.

I started off today working indoors. I built a motor stand out of some scrap wood. I am going to have to take off the motor in order to refinish the transom. As soon as I can get a couple of people over to the house, I'll get the motor lifted off. I can't do it myself, I'm not exactly Lou Ferrigno.

After that, I started scraping and sanding the seat for the aft bench. The wood seems to have cleaned up nicely. My next challenge there is matching the stain color.

The spottyness in the picture is from wetness from where I used a damp rag to clean up the saw dust and to see what the grain looked like.

I then ventured outside. I worked some more on the bow deck. Scraping around the lifting ring and sanding with 200 grit sandpaper. It is almost ready for stain and varnish.

That spottyness is for the same reason as above.

After that, I got a look at my workspace. What a mess. So I spent some time cleaning, organizing my tools, throwing away garbage and scraps, picking up screws and nuts and bolts, and hitting everything with a rag and the shop vac.

With a few minutes of bug-free evening left, I did some scraping and sanding on the transom.