DC, when I decided to do the woodwork I knew that I had to replace all the original portlights. Most of them leaked. Unfortunately this was a 2 year process because the first new portlights were defective and I spent about 2 months working with Bomar to get replacements. I also wanted to make sure there was no leaking before I started on the wood for obvious reasons.
Keith, It took all winter starting from Thanksgiving weekend until early May with both of us working on it. I am not sure how many hours but here is a task list with estimations:
- Remove 95% of Trim(bungs and screws), cabinet doors, cabin doors and drawers: 16 hours
- Strip about half of the original veneer off the cabin top from the rearmost opening portlight forward: 6 hours
- Replace any rotten substrate and fill voids with thickened epoxy: 16 hours
- Clean and sand all trim, doors, cabinet doors and drawers in the basement: 60 hours
- Clean and sand all interior veneer to prep for either finish or new veneer: 40 hours
- Make templates for new veneer, apply glue, iron on veneer: 25 hours
- Apply 3 coats of varnish to all non bung wood in basement. Doors, drawers, trim with exposed bronze screws: 30 hours
- Install all prepped trim back into boat, screws and bungs(over 500): 30 hours
- Mask: 16 hours
- Varnish 3 coats in the boat: 30 hours
- Reinstall doors, drawers, trim with exposed screws: 8 hours
Roughly 275 man hours. This is just an estimation. I guess that is why it was a multi thousand dollar upgrade from the factory to have it varnished. And they did not need to do much of the prep I had to.