Back to the UK for a winter refit

[kashurst]

everything crossed - looking very good

on the spot light thing - I've never used one on any boat, however fixed a few but don't know why I bothered

 

[Elessar]

So, it's now 174 days since I started this project. Today, this happened, hurrah:

Damn you that's the summer gone then!

 

[jimmy_the_builder]

everything crossed - looking very good

on the spot light thing - I've never used one on any boat, however fixed a few but don't know why I bothered

Thanks for that. No immediate raw water leaks, which was the big concern given the scale of works on the engines. An atf leak on stbd; minor coolant leak on port, and a wobbly belt on port which looks initially like an issue with the belt itself. Throttles need calibration. Nothing major yet.

And sorry to read about your own woes, commiserations. Best wishes for a speedy resolution.

 

[sharpness]

Great work jimmy and must feel great to have her back in the water. Thoroughly enjoyed reading your updates on this thread, always impresses me the amount of time put into the forum to keep these type of threads updated, top work

 

[jfm]

:encouragement::encouragement::encouragement: Jimmy!
(You gotta lotta junk in yr cockpit mate )

 

[Illusion]

So, it's now 174 days since I started this project. Today, this happened, hurrah:

I reckon you could a bigger tender in that modified garage of yours..........hang on, wait a minute!

Great stuff, looking good so far!

 

[jimmy_the_builder]

:encouragement::encouragement::encouragement: Jimmy!
(You gotta lotta junk in yr cockpit mate )

You're not kidding. That's the tender, with a ladder on top of it you can see there. The inside of the boat is worse, half the ceiling panels are down, half the floor panels are up, running the cabling for the new electronics is a proper challenge.

I'd rather the tender was in the garage, of course, but the garage floor is still out. There's something about this photo that (to my eye, anyway) makes it look like the engine room is about ten feet deep

 

[petem]

So, it's now 174 days since I started this project.

Thank god you're not doing the cars up on CAR SOS!

 

[Nick_H]

There's something about this photo that (to my eye, anyway) makes it look like the engine room is about ten feet deep

Damn, you forgot to put the engines back in!

 

[alt]

Nice one Jimmy... it'll all be worth it!! At least it's your own boat. I'm between a rock and a hard place helping a friend get his boat back in shape. Every time we remove something, we discover a new problem.... thought I was just going to be spending a weekend cleaning

 

[James L]

Well done.

And that's an amazing job on the swim platform, I had nearly forgotten that was one of the jobs you did and you'd never tell from the photos it wasn't original

 

[MapisM]

Well done.

And that's an amazing job on the swim platform, I had nearly forgotten that was one of the jobs you did and you'd never tell from the photos it wasn't original

Definitely +1. :encouragement:
Actually, I bet that anyone who would see an unmodified boat near Vega would wonder why on earth someone thought of shortening the original platform!

 

[MapisM]

A bit like Radar in the summer in the Med

Not really.
Aside from having its use at night as jfm said, I'm always amazed at how underrated (if not even unknown!) the use of the radar for spotting thunderstorms is...!

PS: ...erm... coming to think of it, maybe I shouldn't have said that we do have some odd thunderstorms also in the Med...
I can already see henryf telling us that's a good enough reason for preferring the Solent!

 

[z1ppy]

Looking good Jimmy,

When is the truck back to the warm booked?

Maybe we will get chance to meet up on the water over the next few weeks?

 

[Fantasie 19]

I have to say that even as a confirmed rag and stick merchant this has been a fascinating series of posts/project to follow... well done indeed, on completing! :encouragement:

 

[wakeup]

Nice one Jimmy.

Have you had to modify the tender deployment rollers as well?

 

[jfm]

So will you be starting a line of discussion on which exact directors chairs to buy for the swim platform Jimmy? You need to get them asap so that whoever is doing the cockpit upholstery can reupholster them to match. I quite like Valdenassi's chairs meself... http://www.valdenassi.com/inglese/prodotti/mobili_uk/round_uk.htm

 

[SammyB]

+1 for Valdenassi!
Having ordered that he delivered to us last summer in Cannes.
We then visited his showroom after berthing in Sanremo and found him and his wife
charming, so much so that having bought some more of his wonderful furntiure his wife ran us back
to our boat in Porto Sole!! Great service

 

[jimmy_the_builder]

Nice one Jimmy... it'll all be worth it!! At least it's your own boat. I'm between a rock and a hard place helping a friend get his boat back in shape. Every time we remove something, we discover a new problem.... thought I was just going to be spending a weekend cleaning

I know exactly what you mean. I've discovered all sorts of nasties when doing the wiring for the new electronics, and it is very hard to just leave it alone, so the job just gets bigger. Ah well.

 

[jimmy_the_builder]

Looking good Jimmy,

When is the truck back to the warm booked?

Maybe we will get chance to meet up on the water over the next few weeks?

Truck is provisionally booked for the end of May; it very much depends on getting the teak supplied and fitted in time.

Hoping to get the boat seaworthy over the next couple of days, and then we can test everything following the big engine work, and also see how the extended platform behaves.