jfm
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\"In build\", sort of, pics of Sq58 - long/lots pics
We haven’t had any “in build” pics lately so I thought I’d offer the next best thing: pics of a new boat already built being slightly rebuilt by its new owner. As a recap, I bought the SIBS Sq58 after the show, hull #201, 2009 model year and one of the last few to be made before the Sq58 production ended. I preferred it to the new Sq55. Having had a Sq58 since 2004 I know what I want in terms of mods, which unfortunately was a long list, which is more a reflection on me that Fairline
. The wonderful Essex Boatyards agreed to put the boat indoors in their huge shed for 2 months to do some work I asked them to do, and gave me free rein (and a key!) to do things myself. They also let me use their trade accounts to order materials and stuff from their suppliers. Fantastic help all round from EBY – I can’t praise them enough
The boat has the matt oak interior, which you either love or hate (!). They have only made 4 of these, so 98% of punters prefer cherry, but I love the oak and anyway wanted a change after 5 years of the gloss cherry. Pics below, though since these were taken it is being funked up with bright coloured cushions and curtains and stuff
As a general idea the mods list was/is the following, in no partic order, of which I’m 2/3 the way through...
1. Colour rework, no blue allowed anywhere. All the blue stripe fabric, blue canvas cockpit covers, fender socks, blue antifoul, have been removed and replaced by black. Black biminis. And the beige vinyl on the flyb has been replaced with beige sunbrella cloth. So everything is white, black, teak, beige cloth (and coloured scatter cushions). No blue anywhere, except the perspex tint.
2. Underwater lights, with RGB arrays + digital controls so you can mix any colour of underwater light – a world first!
3. Complete new electronics install, all the Fairline gear incl the big analogue radar removed and replaced with Raymarine digital network stuff. I chose E series rather than G following advice on here (esp Hurric) cos it fits better and the G series remote control keypad doesn’t suit the Sq58 where the screens are close to the helmsman. ST70 instruments. plus Navtex, AIS Tx/Rx, cameras and other daft gizmos like connecting plotter screens to saloon big TV
4. Satellite TV
5. Reworked electrics, with inverter, new Onan digital controls for genset, battery management system, additional battery charger
6. 3x those Recaro helm seats on the flybr
7. Fairline white plastic flybr table chucked out and re-made in solid teak, and new solid teak lower aft deck table
8. Lots of small details like new steering wheels (off the Sq55), and internal fabrics replaced with more contemporary stuff to go with the light oak wood
9. New tender - Walker Bay Genesis like Hurric’s with the new 2009 Yam EFI 40hp outboard (which arrived last week, very nice job)
10 Much reworked utility room with full size tumble drier/separate washing machine, freezer, WC, pullman bed, etc
11. Replace all WCs with Tecma and install extra one in utility/crew cabin
12 Install biminis
It’s been loadsa work. Some things on boats can take ages to get right, esp running cables and things. Geekily all new cables are run in trunking and labelled and stuff, so all look original fit. Burgundy Ben would approve
Here’s the boat in EBY’s fabulous big shed:
Utility room rework – tumble drier flush install, to replace three small compartments installed by Fairline. Drier needed bottom left corner taking off to clear the GRP moulding, and the whole thing had to be disassembled and rebuilt cos it doesn’t fit thru the utility room door! Pullman bed folds down with 1/3 – 2/3 split, as it works as extra storage/shelf with just the 2/3 down
Next we fitted underwater lights. These are the first ever installation of www.lumishore.com Thru Hulls with all the bells and whistles including digital control pad and individually controllable RGB arrays so you can mix any colour you want or cycle thru the whole spectrum. They are machines from aluminium bronze billet. Beautiful bits of engineering and top marks to Lumishore on making these – no-one else in the world does RGB mixable u/w lights – OceanLeds are junk by comparison. They were brought to the boat by the engineer who designed/built them, in this case
Then it was a simple case of measuring up, drilling four 25mm holes in the hull, cleaning off the a/foul, applying 3M or Sikaflex goo, and boshing them in. Plus lots of wiring, trunking, clipping up, swearing, earthing, getting matching label for elec panel circuit breaker so it looks OEM, installing the control panel (which looks fab and high tech – see the website) and endless details. Pics below. The guy holding one on the transom is the engineer whose babies they are
Then the boat was launched, last week. I wasn’t there, so no pix of actual launch
Nice new teak, bliss!
Radar removed, to be replaced. Also s/s tower taken apart and being rebuilt for sat dome (I’m only having one dome, on the centreline, not a pair)
Here are those Recaro seats. Fantastic mod this, so comfortable, highly recommended upgrade. They come from Recaro needing a support plate at the bottom, so I copied Fairline’s method and used aluminium alloy 5mm sheet, painted white – you can see the edge in one photo. Countersunk machine screws attach the plate to the Recaro frame (which has M6 tapped holes) and the plate itself is bolted to the GRP seat base or the sider mechanism. The original slider mechanism on the middle seat was retained, and they all recline. Also one pic shows new steering wheel, and the fact I haven’t yet installed the instruments (though all the cables are in). I’m putting 2x E120, 4x ST70 and the Volvo fuel computer on the flybr dash
That’s about it, except to show the Lumishore lights in all their glory. Pics below. Actually they’re trying to illuminate mud brown water in Essex, and are doing a fine job, but make allowances for that. They’ll be even better in the Med. You can just dial in any colour you want and control the brightness, or cycle thru preset modes, including one where it just cycles thru the rainbow (at any speed you want – it can take an hour to do the rainbow if you want). The first pic below shows “after burner” colour which I think Magnum should install, and have wired to his throttles. The second pic is white light turned brown by Essex water! Fantastic product – Lumishore (which folks on here are connected with) deserve every success. They have a stand at the Antibes Yacht Show 2-5 April and I’m meant to be the demonstrator so I need to hurry as I’m the only boat on the planet with controllable RGB underwater thru hull lights at the moment!
Signing off there, hope that wasn’t too boring, will post another round of pics when I’ve finished and ready for sea trials and stuff
We haven’t had any “in build” pics lately so I thought I’d offer the next best thing: pics of a new boat already built being slightly rebuilt by its new owner. As a recap, I bought the SIBS Sq58 after the show, hull #201, 2009 model year and one of the last few to be made before the Sq58 production ended. I preferred it to the new Sq55. Having had a Sq58 since 2004 I know what I want in terms of mods, which unfortunately was a long list, which is more a reflection on me that Fairline
. The wonderful Essex Boatyards agreed to put the boat indoors in their huge shed for 2 months to do some work I asked them to do, and gave me free rein (and a key!) to do things myself. They also let me use their trade accounts to order materials and stuff from their suppliers. Fantastic help all round from EBY – I can’t praise them enoughThe boat has the matt oak interior, which you either love or hate (!). They have only made 4 of these, so 98% of punters prefer cherry, but I love the oak and anyway wanted a change after 5 years of the gloss cherry. Pics below, though since these were taken it is being funked up with bright coloured cushions and curtains and stuff
As a general idea the mods list was/is the following, in no partic order, of which I’m 2/3 the way through...
1. Colour rework, no blue allowed anywhere. All the blue stripe fabric, blue canvas cockpit covers, fender socks, blue antifoul, have been removed and replaced by black. Black biminis. And the beige vinyl on the flyb has been replaced with beige sunbrella cloth. So everything is white, black, teak, beige cloth (and coloured scatter cushions). No blue anywhere, except the perspex tint.
2. Underwater lights, with RGB arrays + digital controls so you can mix any colour of underwater light – a world first!
3. Complete new electronics install, all the Fairline gear incl the big analogue radar removed and replaced with Raymarine digital network stuff. I chose E series rather than G following advice on here (esp Hurric) cos it fits better and the G series remote control keypad doesn’t suit the Sq58 where the screens are close to the helmsman. ST70 instruments. plus Navtex, AIS Tx/Rx, cameras and other daft gizmos like connecting plotter screens to saloon big TV
4. Satellite TV
5. Reworked electrics, with inverter, new Onan digital controls for genset, battery management system, additional battery charger
6. 3x those Recaro helm seats on the flybr
7. Fairline white plastic flybr table chucked out and re-made in solid teak, and new solid teak lower aft deck table
8. Lots of small details like new steering wheels (off the Sq55), and internal fabrics replaced with more contemporary stuff to go with the light oak wood
9. New tender - Walker Bay Genesis like Hurric’s with the new 2009 Yam EFI 40hp outboard (which arrived last week, very nice job)
10 Much reworked utility room with full size tumble drier/separate washing machine, freezer, WC, pullman bed, etc
11. Replace all WCs with Tecma and install extra one in utility/crew cabin
12 Install biminis
It’s been loadsa work. Some things on boats can take ages to get right, esp running cables and things. Geekily all new cables are run in trunking and labelled and stuff, so all look original fit. Burgundy Ben would approve
Here’s the boat in EBY’s fabulous big shed:
Utility room rework – tumble drier flush install, to replace three small compartments installed by Fairline. Drier needed bottom left corner taking off to clear the GRP moulding, and the whole thing had to be disassembled and rebuilt cos it doesn’t fit thru the utility room door! Pullman bed folds down with 1/3 – 2/3 split, as it works as extra storage/shelf with just the 2/3 down
Next we fitted underwater lights. These are the first ever installation of www.lumishore.com Thru Hulls with all the bells and whistles including digital control pad and individually controllable RGB arrays so you can mix any colour you want or cycle thru the whole spectrum. They are machines from aluminium bronze billet. Beautiful bits of engineering and top marks to Lumishore on making these – no-one else in the world does RGB mixable u/w lights – OceanLeds are junk by comparison. They were brought to the boat by the engineer who designed/built them, in this case
Then it was a simple case of measuring up, drilling four 25mm holes in the hull, cleaning off the a/foul, applying 3M or Sikaflex goo, and boshing them in. Plus lots of wiring, trunking, clipping up, swearing, earthing, getting matching label for elec panel circuit breaker so it looks OEM, installing the control panel (which looks fab and high tech – see the website) and endless details. Pics below. The guy holding one on the transom is the engineer whose babies they are
Then the boat was launched, last week. I wasn’t there, so no pix of actual launch
Nice new teak, bliss!
Radar removed, to be replaced. Also s/s tower taken apart and being rebuilt for sat dome (I’m only having one dome, on the centreline, not a pair)
Here are those Recaro seats. Fantastic mod this, so comfortable, highly recommended upgrade. They come from Recaro needing a support plate at the bottom, so I copied Fairline’s method and used aluminium alloy 5mm sheet, painted white – you can see the edge in one photo. Countersunk machine screws attach the plate to the Recaro frame (which has M6 tapped holes) and the plate itself is bolted to the GRP seat base or the sider mechanism. The original slider mechanism on the middle seat was retained, and they all recline. Also one pic shows new steering wheel, and the fact I haven’t yet installed the instruments (though all the cables are in). I’m putting 2x E120, 4x ST70 and the Volvo fuel computer on the flybr dash
That’s about it, except to show the Lumishore lights in all their glory. Pics below. Actually they’re trying to illuminate mud brown water in Essex, and are doing a fine job, but make allowances for that. They’ll be even better in the Med. You can just dial in any colour you want and control the brightness, or cycle thru preset modes, including one where it just cycles thru the rainbow (at any speed you want – it can take an hour to do the rainbow if you want). The first pic below shows “after burner” colour which I think Magnum should install, and have wired to his throttles. The second pic is white light turned brown by Essex water! Fantastic product – Lumishore (which folks on here are connected with) deserve every success. They have a stand at the Antibes Yacht Show 2-5 April and I’m meant to be the demonstrator so I need to hurry as I’m the only boat on the planet with controllable RGB underwater thru hull lights at the moment!
Signing off there, hope that wasn’t too boring, will post another round of pics when I’ve finished and ready for sea trials and stuff
