I picked up a cheap vintage sewing machine (Singer 401A) from a garage sale with the hope to at least be able to sew new cushion covers. It would be nice if I could use it to refit the dodger and Bimini too but I am not sure if it will go through several layers…
DECEMBER 2018 To get better access to the bilge area for cleaning and examination, we pull out the 50 gallon fiberglass diesel tank from under the engine bay and due to its size, we are forced to keep it inside the cabin for cleaning since it is bigger than the companionway. Almost twenty gallons of old…
We are on the planning phase of this repair. The boat had suffered damage to the bowsprit in the past and this segment of the deck had been cut away to make a repair from inside the chain locker. A triangular piece of thick glassed ply had been roughly bonded in place; you can see…
BACKGROUND The boat is fitted with a 20 horsepower Yanmar 2-cylinder diesel engine, model 2QM20, coupled to a Kanzaki transmission. These trusty engines are good little workhorses and can be found in numerous applications in addition to offshore power. Although this model has changed over the years, spare parts are available and serviceable units still…
DECEMBER 2018 Getting the boat ready for the upcoming fiberglass works that we will start as soon as weather starts to warm up! We have removed the storage lockers on either side to give us access the the hull and chain plates. The cabin floor has been cut away and the water tank removed for…
The boat came with two water tanks (under v-berth and under cabin sole) and a diesel tank (under the galley sole). All of them are made of fiberglass with an interior gelcoat coat that presented blisters and some areas where the gelcoat was already chipping off. All tanks were fiber glassed to the hull. The…
The boat was sitting on the ground in Pensacola FL (USA). It was someone else’s project boat and never got finished. Well used and in desperate need of some TLC, this is how the boat looked when we bought it. It was October 2016 when we bought the boat. The interior was stuffed with…