What Work Have You Recently Done To Your Boat?

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Zagato

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Worked out where most of the wires come from :eek: Took off the exhaust elbow and sourced a stainless steel one, repaired the boom cover and put some dinghy wheels on the tender :D

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Work going on at the moment

2 new engines
all new thru-hulls (Marelon)
Coppercoat
new solar panels and controller
re-build of the rear gantry for the new panels and to raise the davits by 20 inches
single line reefing (inc new boom)
new oven
led internal lights
New standing rigging
new running rigging
2 new winches
plus rather a lot of other small jobs.

ps anyone in the market for a lewmar ST44 alloy, or an ST16 alloy as I have one spare of each.
 
Most recent .. Fitted the solar panel and regulator as seems silly to have them in a locker with the domestics battery going flat. Made a binocular case so they can have a home next to the companionway (although to be fair. It's close to most of the places on a 25ft boat). Means I stand a chance of finding them as they seemed to always be under coats on a bunk or at the back of a saloon locker
 
We have done a fair bit this year – but there is plenty left to do - from digging out rot under mast and reinforcing, then making good internal paintwork; new standing rigging with new mast fittings and lights / electrics; removed pulpit and repairing stem, stripping out engine and getting ready to replace then we move on to the usual anti-foul, painting topsides and deck; then on to varnish cockpit, gunwales and various other places. We should finish with a new main and stack-pack and associated running rigging.

Budget for the year ran out in December and we had not finished taking things apart at that point.
 
BlueTwo said:
I have made a list. I enjoy doing this so much from an armchair that I threw it away and made another one.
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Made me smile, I was just going to add that last time I was at the boat doing the aforementioned work I ended up adding a few more jobs to the "must do before we sail this year" list.

Where did you get the dinghy wheels from Zag? They look just the job for my Zodiac.

Bugger. That means "fit dinghy wheels" might be going on the list!
 
Make a list.... yes!

seven interior LEd lights, all add up to 1A!
Laptop interfaced to Garmin128
New engine mounts (last Feb)
New remote greaser pipe
Removed kitchen roll from JABSCO innards..
Understood how to reset my BEP battery meter (took three months!)
Refurbed Morse engine control after it sulked during a tow at Fleetwood.........
Nick
 
STOP STOP STOP !!!!

You are making me look bad...

Currently out of the country on business and consequently can only dream of getting the items on my list finished.

1. Change the cabin lights for LEDs
2. Fit a chart table light
3. Install a calorifier
4. Strip and varnish the timber for the data displays on the bridge deck
5. Build a cockpit table
6. Identify the leaking deck fitting... (may take a while...)
7. Replace the clutches
8. Replace 2 x halyards
9. Service the winches
10. Service the engine

Oh and strip, fair and antifoul the hull before 10 March when we go back into the Ogin...

OMG!!!!!
 
Done in last 2 years:

Fit Navik windvane steering
Mast support reinforcement
Revarnish interior
Fit & wire 2 solar panels
Make bracket for & fit new chartplotter
Fit new DSC VHF radio
Partial rewire with 2 new switch panels, bilge pump switch, 12v socket, busbar
Line forecabin with self adhesive closed cell foam
Repaint cockpit area
 
SteveTibbetts said:
Where did you get the dinghy wheels from Zag? They look just the job for my Zodiac.

Bugger. That means "fit dinghy wheels" might be going on the list!
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They are £75 from Barnet Marine Steve (Tel 01707 331 389). Send them an e-mail info@ribs.co.uk and they will send you a list of all the different ones they supply.

These are stainless steel and were recommended by other members, can be taken off or clipped up easily with a spring clip, not heavy, and easy to fit just ask for the bolt kit. They also stay well away from an outboard when folded up so don't hinder it's steering movement as they have a kink in them.

Have fun. Will find their E-Bay link now! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LONG-FOLD...tEquipment_Accessories_SM&hash=item27c312e002
 
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The boat's sealed up in the paint shop at the moment, so the only thing I've been able to work on is the mast. Since this is the last time it will be down for a few years, I've been doing everything I think I might ever want to do while it doesn't involve climbing:

  • Cut a new exit slot for the spinnaker halyard, instead of coming through a mast-foot sheave
  • Fit winches for spinnaker and genoa halyards on the mast
  • Replace main halyard and topping lift (ok, I could have done that with the mast up)
  • Replace lighting cables
  • Splice extension into the middle of windvane cable so that there's enough slack at the foot. It was very short and scraggy, but needed cutting back further due to corrosion. Splicing into the middle avoids having a vulnerable joint exposed near the foot of the mast.
  • Replace weedy cheapo VHF cable with quality stuff of about three times the diameter.
  • Fit LED replacement lamps to masthead and steaming lights. Soldered directly to cable rather than relying on spring-loaded contacts (which were corroded).
  • Fit Salty John posh VHF antenna
  • Fit LED windex light (was none before)
  • Replace crappy halyard sheave roll-pin that had slipped out of place, chafing the halyard, with new stainless pin properly secured with washers and split-pins.
  • Fit tang for storm-jib inner forestay. Not installing the forestay (yet), but if I do it will be a hell of a lot easier to climb up and fit it to an existing tang than to be drilling, cutting and rivetting while hanging on the end of a rope.
  • Fit a small fairlead at the masthead in case I miss having a burgee like on KS :). Again, will have to climb to install the halyard, but much easier than installing the fitting.
  • Ease off a number of tight bends and sharp edges around the various cables at the masthead, and protect the new cables with heatshrink sleeving.
  • Remove and wash all halyards etc.

Boat comes out of the spray bay and back in the water on the 4th of Feb. The job list will start getting a lot longer then! :)

Pete
 
Been to the boat show, convincing myself that a new set of instruments were quite good value, fortunately woke up to reality before melting the debit card.
Work on the boat is currently limited to thought processes.
 
Assuming destowing the boat and fitting a greenhouse heater and dehumidifier doesn't count...

All I've managed so far is to take the teak panel the instruments are mounted on off, remove the instruments and strip the remains of the old varnish off. I've also stripped the dinghy oars and started to strip the washboards.

Today I bought a tin of Epivanes varnish!
 
Done:

Repair VHF aerial
Fit solar panel and regulator
Fit 2x cig lighter sockets for gadget charging
Put swing keel mechanism fixings back together
Chop off lots of nasty exposed bolt ends left by PO
Fit new vent to aft cabin
Replace shock cord on front guardrails
Fit new cooker
Fit new regulator for gas bottle
Fit DMK Box for wireless networking of instruments and wire into VHF for GPS
Fit new starboard side genoa car

To do:

Varnish various bits of interior
Replace knackered plastic sink with nice new s/s one
New washboards
Replace babystay
Fix wobbly pulpit
Fix a couple of wobbly stanchions
Fix toilet (argh)
Replace battery in wireless wind transducer (up the mast job)
Remove a bunch of redundant antennas from the pulpit
Service main and tender outboards
Rub down and antifoul bottom
Replace lifebelt
 
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