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I purchased this 25mt 92 built Black Sea ketch as a neglected yacht needing a refit and fully rebuilt her for live aboard/private cruising/diving.
The reason I purchased her, a second hand hull was the basic hull design, build quality and below water lines with long keel were prefect for a long range cruiser with reasonable draft 2.4mts that I intended rebuilding to my own tech/specs.
I wanted good sea handling character, reasonable sailing ability with a big volume interior in a more classic style with spending $2.0m plus on a new build.
I gutted the hull, replaced the keel, stern truck post, some planks (chestnut planked with oak frame) pulled every nail and replaced with coach screw under a epoxied wood plug.
All new deck, bulkheads, coachwork and interior, new 180hp Iveco apirated diesel, poly grey/black tanks with Techna electric heads.
New masts/spars and S/S rigging.
All marinized cabling/electrics with combination Victron Multi multi plus invertors and chargers to 1200Amp/hrs 12 x 2vDC GEL traction house batteries and all Furuno nav duplicated salon helm/cockpit helm. I designed and equiped the galley to work blue water and alongside on shore power with live aboard function criteria. Thats important, to visualize your all round requirements then design build that to cope with a knock down or 360 in hull down conditions.
760Kg of batteries let lose in a roll over can be problematic.
As a project..difficult, the result...very good. Would I do it again...absolutely. Would I recomend someone do the same ...only if they know boat build and can manage difficult but clever workers plus the most critical have a suitable donor hull.
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