Hey everyone. After bringing M-23 No83 (no name yet) back from Florida to her new home in Western, AZ, the serious work has begun. Unfortunately, she is suffering from a fairly (worse than expected) blistering problem. The process of stripping 4-5 coats of Trindad bottom paint and Lord only knows how many coats of epoxy barrier coat has begun. Obviously, some time in her past she must have been plagued with this same blistering problem and I can only guess that she wasn't allowed to dry out long enough prior to the application of the barrier coat. Whatever the reason, the blisters are back. We're stripping her back to original gelcoat, opening blisters and gonna do the whole process all over again with a lengthy dry out time. At least the its AZ where the humidity today was only 9% .UGH! We wanted to sail our new boat not lay underneath her!!! hahaha Anyways, my question. Next week we are gonna have her craned from the trailer onto work stands. My plan is that while the crane has her lifted to drop the swing keel out so that it can be sandblasted, epoxied, painted, new pendant, new pins, etc. How do I drive out the pivot and stop pins? The ends of the pins are already exposed flush with the outside of the keel trunk. Do I just drive them out? I'm thinking that I shouldn't dremel around their circumference since that would enlarge the holes. Big Punch and Big Hammer????? Any advice would be appreciated. I think we are gonna lower it onto a modifed transmission jack or some kind of cart fabrication since the sucker is supposed to weigh in at 360 lbs. We will re-install it after the blister/bottom job is done when we use the crane to put her back on her trailer. Boy are we having FUN now!!!