To whom may be reading this Post / Blog: After several years of hard work and dreams we have hit a roadblock in this project and it maybe irreversible. I think we could probably say COVID19 has killed this project but it has actually been a combination of events. The new owner of the property…
The boat is currently on the hard at a storage facility, supported by props/stands and covered by tarps. In this report, we shall start the description from inside the hull at the bow and progress to the stern. After, the exterior status will be described from bow to stern. When this was written, all of…
January 2021. With the cool weather suspending any structural work, we have turned to tackling the cleaning and refurbishment of the numerous deck fittings, portlights and hatches. With the boat under cover, its easy to remove all these without the risk of water entering the cabin or hull. Our plan is to systematically remove these items,…
APRIL 2020 No much time to work on the boat during the COVID19 pandemic and so we picked up work that could be done in our garage. We decided to start restoring the teak bowsprit. It had small dings/damages and the varnish was in very poor condition. We started by removing the old varnish. It…
After working through the main cabin, we have reached the head and with the toilet long gone and just some shabby cabinets left in place, we decided it best to open it all up and start again. The floor had been cut out some months ago to deal with rotten wood and the mast support…
November 2019. After completing initial repairs on the port side cabin and galley, we have now moved to examine the navigation station and starboard berth. As purchased, the nav station held two deep-cell house batteries in an enclosure at the bottom, three drawer units and a storage area underneath the top, accessed via a removable…
June 2019 – We have found a couple of areas where the fwd cabin bulkhead is rotten. Before we cut out the rotten areas we wanted to try to inject penetrating epoxy and see that would fix it. We first taped the area and drilled holes 2 inches apart. We used clear tape so that’s…
When purchased, the boat had one noticeable and very critical issue; the mast support post was decayed and was sitting on crumbling, damp filler in the bilge. The previous owner had started to address this by cutting the rotten portion of the mast support post and acquiring a custom made jack up stainless steel plate…
FEBRUARY 7th, 2019 I tried to make a 12in x 12in x 0.5in fiberglass laminate using polyester resin and fiberglass (bi-axial cloth 1708). The goal of this exercise is to try to come up with an affordable method to create fiberglass laminates that will be used for several purposes during this refit project (e.g. thru-hull…
FEBRUARY 2019 With much of the interior stripped out and the engine removed, it is the ideal time to inspect and replace all the through-hull fittings, starting with those below the waterline. These are critical to the safe and seaworthy operation of the vessel and their seals can and do break down over time. In…