Cockpit Sanding

For Tuesday, the 12th of May, I spent a couple hours sanding in the evening's cooler temps.  I have noticed that just ridding Froonie of the old paint (bottom paint and topside paint) is making her look so much better.  The topside paint job was horrible - just looks like it had been slathered on.

While I am waiting for ordered materials to arrive (for the patching of the old head through hulls), I have turned my attention to the cockpit.  I am sanding off the old paint - a very poor second paint job - and nonskid surfaces, as they were rendered useless by the paint job.  My intent for the deck and cockpit is to remove paint down to the original gelcoat, and then prepare surfaces for filling and fairing.  I am using a 6" random orbital sander with 60 and 80 grit pads.  The work is going fairly well, but I am running into some problems in the tighter areas: inside corners, and the space along the raised lip of the nonskid surface.  This will most likely need to be dealt with using the elbow grease tool.