CS34 Decals and Cleaning

Left for Mimico a little before noon, but it was raining and mizerable.  We decided to goto IKEA, have some lunch and look around.

Got to the boat a little after 1pm.  Wanted to get the bottom painted, the vinyl decals removed, and the side cleaned.  VC17 won't stick if the hull is wet, and it was, so NO BOTTOMPAINT FOR ME!

There was another CS34 a couple of boats over, same year, hull #32 (mine is #68).  A little rough and dirty:

We used a heat gun to remove the decals on the starboard side, and the rear.  Could not get the glue residue removed with anything we had, so off to No Frills we went in Mimico.  Picked up some 3M scrub pads, a 12 pack of sponges and scrub pads, and some VIM with bleach.  VIM did nothing, WD40 did nothing, but Goo Gone with a scrub pad removed the glue residue.

Decal residue

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End result

While I was doing this, Rita was washing the sides:

Aluminum stands worked great!

Looking Good!

Also removed some of the excess butyl tape with a putty knife:

You can see the goo above the numbering

Also took a look at the new halyard installed by the PO:

Need to install mast exit plates to avoid chafing the new halyard

Will need to install a spinnaker halyard and uphaul/downhaul before launch.

The hull cleaned up really well and will be able to get a couple of coats of wax next week.

It was too wet to do the bottom paint, as water was dripping over the underbelly even without us washing the hull sides.  Oh well, we had a full day just the same.  We stayed on the boat until after 9pm.