Doesn't look like I worked on it for 8 hours today, but my body knows. Got the starboard gunnel disassembled, the top straighten and sanded. Removed a bunch of no longer used rivets in the ribs, masked off the ends of all the ribs with gorilla tape so they wouldn't get plugged up with old adhesive and gunk.
Although the temp made it up to 55 briefly, it felt colder due to a light breeze coming off Lake Michigan (I'm less than a block away), It was definitely not a good day to even attempt using the pressure washer, so I turned my attention to removing deteriorated paint from the inside gunnel sections. A few months ago I picked up two biodegradable paint strippers to try, so used a different one on each piece. Although neither completely removed all the paint in one pass, the clear winner was Citristrip. The Ready Strip I tried was pretty useless, taking 4 times as long to get 90% of the results. I'm hoping I at least have both sections to the point where I can sand smooth and prime before paint.
Interesting experiment with the Citristrip. I wiped some excess from the brush onto a small section of the adhesive is the hull. Thirty minutes later in was bubbling nicely, so I scraped it off with a putty knife. I then put some on half of a larger section where the adhesive was still fairly heavy and uniform across the section. An hour later I went back and scraper it off. Most of the adhesive was gone. This stuff was 2/3 the price of Kleen Strip and think I may see what happens after a second application in that area before I open the can.
to this: 
I'm hoping they're wrong , but tomorrows prediction now calls for 40's and rain half the day. At least I have the car port to work in, but really want to at least finish up with a good pressure wash.
