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Deborah Davenport
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Post Number: 32
Registered: 04-2001

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Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 02:19 pm:   

I re-did the interior "wallcovering" on Glory Days. It was a project that we planned to do for ourselves, but ended up being one of the last things we did before we sold her. It came out fabulously. My husband was so skeptical after we dismantled the interior that he stayed home during the two afternoons that it took me to affix the new fabric - I think he wanted to distance himself from a possible fiasco. He was floored - and graciously admiring - when he saw the result. I pulled off the old fabric and used those pieces as patterns. WARNING: that old fabric is backed with paper which has contracted / shrunk over the years. Cut extra (maybe 3 inches in length on both the main salon and the forepeak) and leave the small cuts until it's time to install to accommodate the shrinkage. You'll need LOTS of single edge razors, at least three dozen. And don't try to cut the fabric with anything other than super-sharp scissors - tailors' shears. Application used up 5 cans of the 3M Adhesive (?? - I'll look at the boat supplies this weekend and see if I can find which one). 3M was fabulous. A tech from the Industrial area spent close to half an hour on the phone with me. I tested ahead of time and found zero bleed-through and staining from the adhesive. Note on the two afternoons: I didn't do the quarter berth because it was still in excellent condition. That time did include reassembling everything.

Regarding interior fabric - Scott has selected the same fabric I used with success on Glory Days: Calico Corners calls the fabric style Rainier in the color named Riviera. It is a woven tweed- looking blue/tan with a slightly loose weave. A super-tight weave won't give when you need to stretch it a bit to accommodate all the irregularities that come with boats. It also has what the apparel industry would call a soft hand -- which means it feels soft to the touch. Nice idea Scott has to make pillows - they will feel soft on the face.

Glad we did the work. When we pulled the fabric off the bulkheads, we found delamination in the marine ply where the chainplate attached on the starboard side. Yipe. It was an unexpected and expensive repair, but the yard did such a gorgeous job that we left it exposed when we showed the boat to prospective buyers. Proved we had done the repair properly. Cause was leakage at the chainplates. Starboard only - port was fine per the surveyor.

Where something grungy had leached from the starboard bulkhead into the concealed edge of the upper berth leeboard fabric, I used Resolve to remove the stains. It was a wow! product too.

Finally -- BE PATIENT. This is not a project that you can rush, and any re-do requires a new piece of fabric.
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