A month in the boatyard – part 4

SO? What does this all mean for Pablo and its crew and where do we stand today?

I opened a lot of boxes. Got tangled in a few rabbit holes and chose to jump over many more. By the time we’ll splash back, we’ll have hopefully addressed a whole lot of issues and fixed a few more “since we’re at it”:

• New propeller
• New stern tube and strut cutlass bearings
• New Aqualoy 22 shaft
• New standing rigging
• New turnbuckles
• New cutter pins everywhere
• New spreader bases
• New tangs and tangs bolts
• Mast, spreaders and boom sanded back to bare aluminium
• Rebuilt the hydraulic furler units
• New bearings on all the furlers
• New custom-made, oversized, stern chainplate
• New custom-made and oversized bow chainplate and chain roller
• New custom-made and oversized inner-forestay chainplate
• New custom-made nose fitting for inner-forestay
• All new fasteners on the mast
• All new wiring in the mast (that’s more than 450′ of wires!)
• New dyneema inner-forestay with Coligo Marine fittings
• Hull sand blasted and dried out, blisters grinded and glassed back
• New rod-rigging for the in-mast furler
• Keel to hull joint grinder and filled with gFlex epoxy
• Some old thru-hulls closed and glassed back
• 5 new thru-hulls changed with new fiberglass backing plates
• New raw-water intake hoses for engine and genset
• New strainers for engine and genset
• New sound insulation in the engine room
• New wiring in the stearing pedestal
• Bow-thruster control box rebuilt & new joystick switch for the thruster
• Stern tube rebuilt and beefed up with 32oz of biax glass and faired
• New galley sink discharge hose
• Centerboard fixed
• Cleaned and painted back the keel bolts
• New custom made pin cover for the centerboard out of fibreglass
• Added thru-bolted bolts on the centerboard inspection port
• New bounding wires all over the boat to connect all seacocks/centerboard
• New exhaust for the genset
• All new hose clamps in the engine room
• New salt water line for toilet and wash-down pump
• Removed, potted and rebedded the genoa tracks. New fastener
• Removed 4 trash bags of old wires, mainly in the bilges and engine room
• New RGB LED in the cabin (hey, we must have some fun as well!)
• Created a big radius out of epoxy between the keel and the hull to make the bottom cleaning easier
• Removed the old speed transducer and patched back the hole
• Peened new rivets on the rudder shoe
• Installed a new accumulator tank and re-plumbed most of the fresh water line in the engine room for better maintenance and easier access
  
  

Or at least, that’s the list as of today. There’s still some post-its on the wall…

• Fair the hull
• 6 new coats of barrier coat
• New copper coat paint
• Wrap the rudder with new layers of glass
• New lifelines
• Re-rig the boat
• Raccor by-pass to be able to change active filter while underway
• And there’s some talk about maybe a new swim platform, rework a bit the transom steps, take a closer look at the rudder…

As much as I would like to say that after all of this, we’ll be done for a while, we both know better. This is a boat, and things break all the time. In the time it took me to write this blog post, one of our hard drive broke. We discovered a new leak (Hey look Dad! When you wash the cockpit, it rains in the bathroom!), and our portable VHF radio stopped charging for good. I know I’m a slow writer, but c’mon right?

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