For those if you who knew me as an enforcer...

kimhollamby

kimhollamby

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...I've left IPC now and assumed ordinary mortal status.

Among other things this means I will now die and I can be physically and mentally hurt. Be gentle with me :-)

Meantime hopefully I'll stick around and post a few things on how to rapidly bankrupt yourself with a 35-year-old 20-tonner.
 
Quick Kim, while you still have admin status. Copy all the sinbin threads!!!! Now you are a mere mortal, you can share them all with us! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Apologies, long post with big pics

Before we started
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Just one sample of what we faced when the decks came off:
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And another
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Trust me you never want to see your boat like this
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Better to start putting it back together by rebuilding the deck beams
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and the aft sections of the superstructure
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Sub deck on
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Old engines out
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Caulking the decks
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Oops, that's new fuel tanks needed as well then
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Oil on paint on oil on paint on oil on paint...34 years of engineroom neglect...
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Some of the 20+ redundant holes glassed in
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Engineroom ground out and repainted, new engine bearers in
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New engines in (yes they are Perkins Sabres - M135s - old fashioned replacements for the 6.354s)
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One of the two battery boxes fully loaded and cabled
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New deck fittings going on
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New shafts and props in
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Tides Marine seals in
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Main and day tanks in
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More shots to come, still on the camera.
 
Addendum

Before anyone thinks I'm about to claim credit for the deck replacement, superstructure refurb and re-engine bits:

Skene Yacht Services. Absolutely no hesitation in recommending David Skene for his honesty and craftsmanship. Made a very difficult nine months bearable and left us with teak decks that are already drawing praise.

You can tip your hat in our general direction (and to various press-ganged family and friends) for any of the other bits, including the nastiest job I've ever done on a boat, grinding out and painting the engineroom.
 
Re: Addendum

Looks like a great project and a lovely boat when finished.

Good luck with the post-IPC career. I always thought your calm hand on the wheel here was a real plus for these forums.
 
Hi Kim, welcome to mortaldom. Wow, fantastic/massive project! Glad to her the heavy engineering has gone well. It's a GRP hull, right? In the first pic it looked wood/carvel a bit. Looks more than 20tonnes too! What fuel tank volume did you put in? Hope rest of project goes well - keep us posted
 
Yes GRP bottom, wooden top.

Beecham Marine did all wood cruisers of similar shape to various lengths in 1960s but they did around six of these 45s in the 1970s until 25% VAT killed their business as boatbuilders. Got reinvented as Tewkesbury Marina.

Unfortunately Endeavour Quay's hoist doesn't have strain gauges so no means of checking in the strops but we think circa 20t or so, especially as Formanda is a bit high on her marks currently.

The fuel system got completely reconfigured. We originally had 400gal in four tanks, of which around 350 or so was usable. All were on an old bottom draw system and in figuring out how to sort that we then found that aluminium tanks are not at their best after 34 years.

We now have main stainless tanks port and starboard of 139gal each; these electrically pump through a Separ 2000 series pre-pre-filter into a 78gal day tank. The draw is off the tank bottoms, we can risk that because we're not immediately committing the diesel to the engines so we should be able to keep the tanks fairly clean.

We'll carry a spare pump but in an absolute emergency we'll be able to gravity flood the day tank from the mains.

The engines draw through Separ 90-series pre-filters, the generator will have its own pre-filter. Breathers are up on the roof, well out the spray.

Yet to get fuel ranges sorted but calcs suggest we should be able to pop the other side of the Channel for our fill-ups and carry most of the diesel home if we take it easy; post November 2008 thinking creeping in.

Budget dictated not adding two extra tanks but we have space for at least another 150gal or so in two saddle tanks, later on, if desired, without resorting to major woodwork changes; plus we could use some other obvious spaces outside the engineroom. The pump/day tank system should make it pretty easy to link these in if we ever decide to cut loose for some long-range cruising.
 
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