Making Progress on Hardware Removal

Today I was really lucky to have my good friend Scott's son, Taylor come to help me...  He is young, strong and smart, all qualities that made the day go well...  The only downside, is that he eats a lot!
That said, we were able to get the teak removed from around the mast. A job that I thought would take about 1/2 an hour ended up taking almost 2 hours!  Lots more wet and rot to deal with...  it seems that every time a leak happened they just added more silicone.... Instead of fixing it properly... Oh well...

We got all the hardware off the aft deck...

I think that about one more day should see the deck cleared of all hardware...