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Our plans, in 6 years we hope to retire early and go crusing we plan to go south to
Mexico and depending on how crusing life agrees with us travel west and south then who knows. Morning Star is hull # 19 built in 1977 she has a solid fiberglass hull no
core the cabin house is also solid a
layup withan insulated space then
plywood veneer, the decks are cored with solid
teak blocks. Other than the teak plywood lining the cabin house all wood used in construction was solid teak . Things to look closely at should include the chainplates these are bolted to teak blocks then glassed to the hull, this is one of my next projects to undertake I plan to duplicate this construction with the change to
bronze chainplates as they dont react to an oxygen starved enviroment as does
stainless steel. We have replumbed everything on board and are begining to rewire also as these systems are 30 years old. We replaced the spruce
mast and boom with
aluminum and at the same time all standing and running
rigging. We repainted with awlgrip and at this time removed the club boom on the staysail and redid the cabintop
rigging with t-track and new sail controls. We built a new boom gallows with a traveler mounted 6" above the
deck just aft of the
cockpit well, this moved the mainsheet foreward about 2'6" to achieve a better sheeting angle. New railings and Sails built by Schattauer Sails in
Seattle plus a
dodger round out the recent projects that we have undertaken she is looking like a
new boat. If any other questions just fire away.
Fair winds
Steve and Susan