We had originally planned to leave this past spring but just couldn't due to some pesky fairly serious
health issues and had to stick around Chicago for treatment all summer. But we did a LOT of the
work last
winter.
Last winter season we basically did a heavy
refit, replacing all systems inside, gauges, complete
electrical,
plumbing, septic,
repower, full prop/shaft/cutlass bearing/stuffing box/shaft log hose and clamps re-fresh. New zincs, insulating
interior of the
hull after tearing out all the cabinetry and rebuilding it back in, fully new LP system from tank to
stove with detector/solenoid panel. Rebuilt nav station, new
anchor and roller.
Plus a host of other things including stripping the bottom all the way of 40 years of thick, peeling
bottom paint, repairing some fairly extensive pitting through the
gelcoat with
epoxy. We then re-doing it all from there up with 6 coats moisture-barrier
Interlux 2000 and new ablative Pettit SR-60 Ultima
bottom paint -2 coats: first blue then red over that so that when blue peeks through it would be a telltale for when more needed to be applied. Plus a new bootstripe to ease maintenance/cleaning at the waterline.
This winter is mainly "would like to do" projects and not the "need to" ones we already did last year