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?
The right tool for the job – our friends from Pulsar brining back from the states a toolbag full of IPAs