Hi,
Just a quick
introduction,
I'm a 32 year old sailor with my own little yacht that is a bit of a
work in progress (aren't they all..) It's a
Maxi 77, a slightly odd but comfy and quick Swedish plastic 25-footer.
Odd in its somewhat chined narrowish
hull shape and bulb
keel, with IOR-style masthead rig and a huge foretriangle (well, for a 25-footer that is).
I've already changed out the
saildrive propshaft
seals, the big leg seal and resealed most of the
deck fittings. Then installed new winches, stoppers and rearranged the
cabin roof to a more modern layout. Used to have five
cleats and a central
winch on the
mast side (!) of the
cleats (how am I supposed to use THAT?) ; now I have the
winch repositioned at the very edge of the roof where a cleat once was, then a set of stoppers where the winch used to be. Much better. To port of the
halyard winch, a few cam cleats now hold the trim lines. I've left two cleats on starboard of the winch, for later replacement perhaps. I've also upgraded to self-tailing sheet winches, a two speed
halyard winch and am installing some modern
electronics.
Then I built a new masthead to make room for all-rope halyards and an off-center
spinnaker crane that will no longer chafe the forestay.
Now all it needs is new windows and some
interior work, basically
repairs of the damage that was done by leaving a sizeable number of
leaks untreated for a bit too long. Oh, and all new
wiring, but
electronics is one of my other hobbies, so I'm not in the least worried about
that one.
Just dreading the sticky vinyl job...
Marcel