Top eye brow caulking done!

Debbie and I tapped up the top eye brow so that we could caulk the eye brow. 

At various times we have been working on removing all the old caulking from the eye brows on anticipation of varnishing them.

 The method was using a putty knife and regular folding knife, a razor blade, a dental pick and any other thing that might work to remove the old caulking. The old caulking was black in color and cracked and some was missing. We decide to restore the eye brows to their original state as they are in very good condition.

 The taping we did one day and then skipped a day (took the day off from boat work) and then caulked them up using brown “Life Caulk”.

 First we cleaned the area with Acetone using a razor blade inside a towel.

 I spread out some caulking and then using a putty knife kept working it in the crevice. After it was worked in I would smooth it out using a caulking tool. 

Stuffing it

Had to cut the tip off the old caulking as it hardened, this helped make more of a mess

Debbie was behind me removing the tape and fixing any screw ups and cleaning up with “Life Caulk cleaner”. This was satisfying because it is the last time this needs to be done and it is another project completed.

It still needs a finial clean up but it really came out quite nicely.

We chose the brown (teak color) as it blends in nicely with the teak eyebrow and when all varnished up will leave a nice clean white line where the gel coat meets the caulking and eye brow.

Yes we still need to do the lower eye brow but one at a time. The lower one is cleaned of the original caulking but needs taping, and prepping. This will be done in a few weeks.