G'Day Sara and James,
I had a look at your list... lots of work and
money represented there for sure.
But I must agree with the above posts that suggest NOT doing most of those projects until you have sailed/lived aboard for some while. In fact, the only ones that I would attempt initially are renewal of the standing
rigging if its age suggests that it might be ready to fail, and possibly
bottom paint if it needs it to stay reasonable clean. If there are any areas of serious rust, local
repair might also be indicated.
It is rather common for newbies to do a lot of reading and come up with a similar list of "improvements" for a newly purchased vessel. All too often, these ideas prove fallacious, and in the best case money/time are wasted, worst case actual damage is done to the new toy. Reading and theoretical knowledge are indeed useful, but experience is more specifically directed at your boat and your actual usage of it.
A specific case in point: when we
sold our previous boat, we had been
living aboard and cruising full time for 17 years. The new owner, who thought of himself as an expert, immediately tore out much of the
interior, removed the
wind vane steering, junked the LPG system and
stove for an alcohol job w/o an
oven, removed the mainsheet traveller, converted from
wheel to tiller
steering (meaning that the autopilots would not work), and in general stuffed up a proven and successful cruising boat. Six months later he grew bored with the job and
sold her on. The new new owner sailed the hell out of it for a while, then removed her from the
water and has spent two years and a lot of
money changing most of those things back to a semblance of the original configuration.
So, please use the boat for a while before getting too far into changes... and enjoy some sailing while you can!
Cheers,
Jim