Fairline Squadron 78 refit/fit - Hard Top

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Yup BJB. I hesitated posting the 3rd from last pic because imho most HTs including this one for sure look too big in that view, where the boat is shortened by the camera angle. When you look at the pic below it's perfectly ok, imho

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Yes the curved fins will use significantly different software because they perform quite differently. Sleipner are installing that, as well as new firmware in the touch control screen. The stabilisers refit is quite a massive job and the boat is all line in carboard inside because they're working both sides of the master cabin with big hydraulic tools (and hammers)
 
Thanks for the kind words. Actually we agreed/signed the HT project order at SIBS in September 2014 but there is a lead time on the components (HT GRP infusion moulding is made in Slovenia, at Seaway/Greenline), plus February just suited everyone's diary. Winter boating happens in the Med but for me is slow/occasional. Season really kicks off in May, so I just want all the work done by then really

I'll post more pics and vid later
 
oh!

looks brilliant, I REALLY like the gloss black domes John!
Jealous now :p

and a really silly Q, where the heck did you move all the furniture from Match? It's practically empty inside!
It's not a matter of bringing along a house moving co to pack and store is it?

Looks like a "simple" job as a H/T can turn into a massive project to manage!

cheers

V.
 
I quite like Bleumer yard S. I'm a regular there so know the boss Philippe well. They have their own tall crane just parked up ready to go so no outside hiring needed, which suited this project (there were 2 lifts on different days - the HT then the domes/radar assembly. They let me in the yard out of hours to work on the boat, and they're very accommodating about outside workers coming in to work on the boat. Location wise it is easy for me, and security is ok. The place isn't perfect and imho you have to keep a close eye on them, but it seemed the right choice for this job
 
vas said:
oh!

looks brilliant, I REALLY like the gloss black domes John!
Jealous now :p

and a really silly Q, where the heck did you move all the furniture from Match? It's practically empty inside!
It's not a matter of bringing along a house moving co to pack and store is it?

Looks like a "simple" job as a H/T can turn into a massive project to manage!

cheers

V.
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Thanks Vas. Yup I'm really pleased. Ref the domes, I'm holding off with the silver Tracvision decals, and might leave them plain gloss black. Not sure yet. I like the aerials up there too
I had to remove the furniture to create room for the Fairline team and to avoid risk of damage - they pulled a lot of the ceiling down and glassed in aluminium plates in 4 places on the inside of the superstructure layup, for the HT legs to be attached to (by drilling/tapping M12). In the factory these plates are put in as the thing is moulded but in my boat it was retrofit, working upside down up in the ceiling void. The plates were bedded onto bonding paste then propped overnight, then glassed over with glass mat/polyester the next day
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Yes it was a removal van job, like moving house!

Nothing on a boat is ever simple as you know. I took the refit opportunity to get other things done apart from HT and new stabs, but that meant I had (still have) lots of other "side shows" going on, like 2 big new transducers and Garmin CHIRP sonar gear, running new ethernet cables while the saloon ceiling was down so I can have those Garmin ethernet joystick iDrives by the fly helm chairs, pre-wiring (Ethernet, power, video) for a FLIR camera, running a second n2k network for the gensets to measure fuel burn via maretron flow sensors, some e/room temps sensors/wiring, a Maretron RIM install so I have dashboard screen read out of machinery status running/not running (2x gens, watermaker, stabs electric pump, aft cabin airco, some cooling gear, etc). Also because of too many ethernet devices I've install 2x ethernet switches. By the time you've run all those wires in OEM cable trunking so it looks original you have plenty of work to do (as you know better than anyone!)
 
I didn't realise BdA had a lift big enough, sounds like a very accommodating arrangement.

Did you throw away the old tower? JTB could put that on his radar arch for more impact following his other extension. ;-)
 
My old radar "twin tower" is surplus to requirements alas. It went back to Ipswich where it might well get chopped up. If anyone can use it on their boat and save it from the chainsaw, please shout. It's a fairly big beast though!
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