I was down at the boat getting the
sails off and took some pictures. Boat was nice and dry inside, the new windows laugh at rain, and the
mast step leak has apparently stopped now that the mast is pressuring the step down. Still needs to be addressed of course, I'll put butyl tape under the bolts once the mast comes off. To be safe it's got blue shrinkwrap tape over it to keep
water out til a proper
repair can be done.
Now the first
rule of selling is to clean everything up - nearly impossible given my drive (2 hours down, 2 hours back). So you see a lot of warts here. Frankly I expect the boat won't sell, and I'll end up finishing up the
interior by next spring, and then list at a non-discount
price once it's pristine. Or keep it if I get too weepy-eyed over it - entirely possible, when I am actually able to get down there I am in love with this boat. These
boats normally go for mid-thirties.
Overall, all the exterior is done (well as far as a boat
project is ever done, there's always something). The
interior looks way worse than it really is, just because a boat with chopped up
headliner is a very sad looking creature. It's not a hard job, but it is a bit time consuming, and the best glue requires spray-guns and full-face masks to prevent death-due-to-vapors. I also didn't put the
cushions back in the boat, which definitely makes it look homier - but the boat is a bit filthy, so you get the uglified view.
So here's a few of the exterior. I hate seagulls and cormorants, they've turned the boat's
paint job into a
toilet. It's not sitting near the hose right now so I can't wash it (not that I had time with a 2 hour drive down and 2 hour drive back). I'll give it a wash once it's up on the cradles, then the mast is down and they stop sitting on the thing. I removed & moved some hardware at the last minute, so you'll see a few dots where I've filled the old holes with thickened
epoxy. Need to get that touched up with paint after I've washed the boat.
Those Nicro day/night vents you see on the
cabin top are awesome. Got five of them on the boat, to keep air moving (2 forward blowing in, 2 aft blowing out, and one in the
head blowing out). It's only a few degrees warmer inside the boat than out now, even with all the
ports closed. It used to be an
oven.
You might notice things look a little splotchy on the side of the boat - that's seagull poop. Thank you, nature's sky rats. At least it's white on white...
Here's a few shots from the
cockpit. The
plywood companionway is just to keep rain out til I'm done with the new
hatch - fabrication is done, just need to install the little wheels it rolls around on and paint it.
I redid the
electrical. Here's the new
panels. Oh and that white disk is half of the backing plate solution for the
winch above. Once the new headliner is in, I have a G-10 fiberglass disk of slightly wider diameter that will sit on top of that, hiding the edges of the headliner and giving it all a neat appearance. As for why one bolt is only the length of the nut, either there were variations in deck thickness or I ran out of longer bolts and had to scrounge - don't
recall.
Here's looking into the cabin from the companionway. I've got a bit of
plywood as the sliding companionway hatch while I fabricate a new one. Almost done now, just need to install the little wheels and paint the thing. If you look close you can see I haven't trimmed the Dow 795 on the inside windows yet.
Side view w/ the
galley. You can really see the untrimmed Dow 795 here, and some nice closeup views of chopped-up headliner. I've got oversized G-10 fiberglass trim rings for the vents as well, like I do for the
winch backing plate, once the new headliner is in. Dangly wire to the nav light is because I don't like the old conduit and didn't want to screw it back in - was thinking about some solutions that would work better with a vinyl headliner.
Starboard forward bunk, and some of the
galley. Plus boxes of boat
parts. Far fewer of these than when I started...
Starboard aft cabin. The aft cabins are the really usable ones. Some dangly
battery cables here, need to get that headliner off to figure out the most attractive way to
route the
cables.
Port forward berth. Some
repair work visible here, and dangly nav light
wiring - again trying to figure out most attractive way to work conduit into the headliner solution.
Port aft berth.
Some shots of the
head.