Cap rail port side and stanchions


 We finished off the re-caulking of the port lower cap rail. Darn, hate doing re-work! It is just a case of learning on the fly. At any rate we cannot be too hard on ourselves and it is done and over for many a rainy day now. As it is it does not rain much here in San Diego and this boat was a SoCal boat and has not seen much wet weather so thing on board are dry and there is no rot. Now we can keep it that way.

Tools of the trade :) and caulking around a stanchion




 We think there may be a couple of stanchions leaking. They are too much work to re-bed at this time so we decide to clean them out real good and then put 3M 4000 UV around them and the screws. We did find a spot on one of the two we got bedded around the edges that was iffy for a leak but if I remember right it was not leaking. We will do all the stanchions in the lower side decks and the one by the stern cleat. Sometime in the future we may re-bed them while we are holed up for hurricane season some place or something like that. 

Removing tape as we go 

Needs some clean up



Looks good after the tape is removed

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