Dream Sailboat Saloon REFIT! For under 1k! Jeanneau 54DS 

Wow those stairs turned out to be a really great facelift for the interior. Loved that a lot. Thank you for sharing

Super job! You’ve motivated me to start a similar project on my SO42iP. Scheduled for my 2025 “to do” list but I may begin sooner. Thanks!

Thanks! Was just about to sand down and varnish the trim around my galley on my SO42i. Great help for the project.

Love the addition of white for contrast really works well. Your vessel is no longer a somewhat sad looking forgotten love, she is now looking modern, new and fresh nice job mate. PS I do love it when you use words like taps, it's so rare on RU-vid these days lol.

Hey mate you are a sanding animal ! My advice is to invest in some kind of dust mask and something for fumes for the varnish . You did excellent work bringing the wood finish back ! Cheers !

Laying in bed with Johnny watching this and I’m getting anxiety about the dust!! We both agreed you should have taken the cushions off first but Johnny said it’s a man thing!!! It’s looking bloody amazing inside. Kudos to you 🎉

You have made it your own. Well done for achieving a great outcome.

Looks great! Good job guys!!

Awesome upgrades. Great idea to use the white wrap in areas around the salon and galley. Nice work,,,,

lovely job 👏 stairs look wicked 👊

Looks mad mate, what a transformation!

It looks fantastic!!!

Very competent jobs. Even Fast Andy was smooth. Aesthetics are great

You must be proud as punch - awesome work. My Mrs has been at me to lose the couch from the middle of the saloon - she saw your refit and just nailed me "see, Andy did it and it looks great - told you" - have to admit it does look better - another of season job on the list! She looks brilliant - I'm a woodworker and can appreciate the effort that goes into all that sanding down! Preparation is 9/10ths of the finish 😁 Robin

Nice job. Really lifted the boat look.

Andy, lighting off a sander inside a boat without removing every piece of kit is a sad state of affairs.

Looks awesome!

Looks nice I don’t like the white behind the stairs but that’s ok everyone likes stuff a little differently

nice work Andy , try putting the Hoover on your sander . will save you cleaning up so much mess later

Great job mate 👍!

You did a great job of cleaning up the crime scene at the beginning 😂

Great job

We’ll done mate

Savager meets a Wombles soundtrack…..👍

Great job. How did you not go thru the first layer of veneer with all that sanding. What is the nice blue light strip under the tear drop windows, that looks great.

That huge carpet in the saloon will be a nightmare to get to bilge areas and once it gets wet traffic

I am still waiting for you 3 petulant pirates to come up with the ubute, deluxe yacht. The Aussie, the Scotsman, and U. Luv ya work on this refit..........but ya gotta get back to shit stirring basics. Come on Andy ya gotta give it a crack. Get the 2 up in the north and the other 2 that are gunna fry themselves in the Pacific. Luv ya work young fella lookin' pretty spiffy. Oh.........and now I find ya blue. Well done. Fair winds 4u3

More like Fast Sandy

Great job, congratulations! We just purchased a 40.9 that needs some touch up and I wondered whether you tinted the varnish. If so, any tips? Thanks.

The carpet is in . Check the bilge alarm mine was powered by a 9 volt battery. . Trust me it wasn’t good

Hey Andy. I bought myself a 54ds and was looking for this orange hue on the varnish. You mentioned "amber clear". Can you tell me what product did you use?

Not sure you will see this, just watched and curious how you access the bilge and such under the carpet?

Andy I had that exact same shower panel! Good on you. How did it work? Also are you going to be at the Annapolis boat show this year?!

Hey Andy. Considering the stairs primer, as a Greek, I can tell you that they gave you wrong product! On the label it says literally "primer for metal surfaces" 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Where do you find these boats

What is the boat model?

lol under 1k, is that because your time is valueless? mine sure isn't.

she is too big !!

Please throw away this dummy of an sanding machine right now. Get yourself a sander from MAKITA, Festool or Mirka. Most important is the dust extraction. If you don't have a vacuum cleaner get one, a household model which can be used on the boat later might do for the small project of refurbishing the interior. You will find dust for years and years if you go on with that Bosch. But it's also the quality of surface this leaves in comparison to the ones I suggested. This Bosch is very high, resulting in an really unsafe lead of the machine. You won't be able to achieve a smooth surface like with the ones above. There are reasons for phrases like "buying cheap means buying double ". Good tools are mandatory for satisfying results. A good sander saves also a lot of sandpaper, so it will pay back immediately. This green nonsense from Bosch must be forbidden... 280 on bare wood is absolute nonsense. Where did you get this from? 150 or 180 is fairly fine enough for bare wood as the scratches will be invisible. Sanding varnish 280 is fine, maybe even 360 or 400 for the last coats. Fine paper will improve the flow of the varnish. Sanding inbetween coats is not necessary for any paint I know. Just the time will always be different. It's important to thin especially the first coat to ensure it soaks into the wood as deep as possible. The second coat can get less thinner. Good results are also achieved by painting coat on coat right away with a little time inbetween, maybe 4 hours. If you got enough surfaces in one go you can begin at the first point when you finished the last one. This builds good thickness.