Colin24
Well-Known Member
I need a few small jobs doing on my 23 foot MAB.
No much boaty experience, 2 seasons with first boat.
It’s a heavy, for it’s size, slow but forgiving old thing. Ideal for me to learn from all my mistakes.
I have made a few minor improvements, new UV strip and valet for the headsail. new main.
new sheets and new batteries and general cleaning up.
I have purchased an Icom fixed VHF. A NASA depth thingy (transducer and display head) to replace the ancient Seafarer unit, which I liked and which worked very reliably, but ran on internal batteries, I’ll keep the Seafarer fitted as a good back up. I’m about to purchase a small chart plotter, Lowrance 3500, to add to my collection of never fitted bits.
I would like to replace all the scrappy wiring as and when these items go in and while we’re at it replace the switch panel too. I’ve had a look behind the little 6 switch electrical panel and it’s a real rats nest.
The electrical plan of the boat is very simple, the batteries, 2 x 110 Ah domestic jobbies are kept charged by shore power when on the pontoon and topped up to a small extent by my feeble but adequate 8 hp Honda outboard. Apart from the items mentioned above there are just the nav lights and a hateful florescent tube in the small cabin.
My Ah consumption is generally very low, lets face it, the sort of sailing that I do, East coast estuary pottering and occasionally poking my head out to sea for a few hours on nice days hardly warrants a chart-plotter. It’s just for the fun of having the toys I want.
I will not be adding anything else, apart from maybe a tiller-pilot to make going below to make a cuppa less fraught.
Also I want two small holes filling and covering (no sniggering at the back!) one is where the sink drain exits through the hull, it’s not got a proper sea-cock, just what looks like a white plastic fitting
And it exits below the water line. There is an appropriately sized wooden bung on permanent stand-by. I’ve never been happy with that arrangement and do not use the unfeasibly tiny sink anyway.
The hole other is right underneath between the bilge keels where a log impeller once lived.
I’d rather have no holes in the hull and use an internally mounted transducer.
I’ll be lifting out for a week or two over the winter for scrapping and antifouling and ideally would like everything above fitted and sorted while she’s out.
I know what your thinking ‘This is a forum for Practical boat owners, buy a few instruction manuals and get your finger out.
Gentlemen, believe me -I know myself and it’s never going to happen.
I’m full of good intent and enthusiasm, but I’m terminally cak- handed .
I have been on the receiving end of loads of good advice from this forum, I’ve down-loaded all the PDF manuals that I’ve been directed to, bought the books and know, in theory how to do all of the above.
What I’m asking for this time is this: Is these such a thing as a jobbing boaty handyperson?
The sort of person you see advertising in the local rags, that’ll do all sorts of small maintenance jobs around the house –but a boaty version OR if such does not exist. Is the above the sort of stuff a proper boat yard would do? It seems very small fry, are there any ‘no job too small’ type places.
I’m hoping for someone to point me in the direction of some one who’ll turn up with a van discuss all of the above and spend a couple of days completing the work.
I’d be happy to pay a competent person the going rate.
The boat is in a marina in Ipswich, but would be in the marina boat yard when the work needs to be done.
Oh , yer, any thoughts on what the above would set me back.
Colin
No much boaty experience, 2 seasons with first boat.
It’s a heavy, for it’s size, slow but forgiving old thing. Ideal for me to learn from all my mistakes.
I have made a few minor improvements, new UV strip and valet for the headsail. new main.
new sheets and new batteries and general cleaning up.
I have purchased an Icom fixed VHF. A NASA depth thingy (transducer and display head) to replace the ancient Seafarer unit, which I liked and which worked very reliably, but ran on internal batteries, I’ll keep the Seafarer fitted as a good back up. I’m about to purchase a small chart plotter, Lowrance 3500, to add to my collection of never fitted bits.
I would like to replace all the scrappy wiring as and when these items go in and while we’re at it replace the switch panel too. I’ve had a look behind the little 6 switch electrical panel and it’s a real rats nest.
The electrical plan of the boat is very simple, the batteries, 2 x 110 Ah domestic jobbies are kept charged by shore power when on the pontoon and topped up to a small extent by my feeble but adequate 8 hp Honda outboard. Apart from the items mentioned above there are just the nav lights and a hateful florescent tube in the small cabin.
My Ah consumption is generally very low, lets face it, the sort of sailing that I do, East coast estuary pottering and occasionally poking my head out to sea for a few hours on nice days hardly warrants a chart-plotter. It’s just for the fun of having the toys I want.
I will not be adding anything else, apart from maybe a tiller-pilot to make going below to make a cuppa less fraught.
Also I want two small holes filling and covering (no sniggering at the back!) one is where the sink drain exits through the hull, it’s not got a proper sea-cock, just what looks like a white plastic fitting
And it exits below the water line. There is an appropriately sized wooden bung on permanent stand-by. I’ve never been happy with that arrangement and do not use the unfeasibly tiny sink anyway.
The hole other is right underneath between the bilge keels where a log impeller once lived.
I’d rather have no holes in the hull and use an internally mounted transducer.
I’ll be lifting out for a week or two over the winter for scrapping and antifouling and ideally would like everything above fitted and sorted while she’s out.
I know what your thinking ‘This is a forum for Practical boat owners, buy a few instruction manuals and get your finger out.
Gentlemen, believe me -I know myself and it’s never going to happen.
I’m full of good intent and enthusiasm, but I’m terminally cak- handed .
I have been on the receiving end of loads of good advice from this forum, I’ve down-loaded all the PDF manuals that I’ve been directed to, bought the books and know, in theory how to do all of the above.
What I’m asking for this time is this: Is these such a thing as a jobbing boaty handyperson?
The sort of person you see advertising in the local rags, that’ll do all sorts of small maintenance jobs around the house –but a boaty version OR if such does not exist. Is the above the sort of stuff a proper boat yard would do? It seems very small fry, are there any ‘no job too small’ type places.
I’m hoping for someone to point me in the direction of some one who’ll turn up with a van discuss all of the above and spend a couple of days completing the work.
I’d be happy to pay a competent person the going rate.
The boat is in a marina in Ipswich, but would be in the marina boat yard when the work needs to be done.
Oh , yer, any thoughts on what the above would set me back.
Colin
