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Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 03-09-2015, 13:34
Replies: 36
Views: 5,336
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: The Pingmobile splashed today!

The price is right for the grey stuff... ie free :)

It did look quite nice up there once upon a time.... the 'before' shots I posted here were after I had stripped out the space.

Previously and...
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 03-09-2015, 12:24
Replies: 36
Views: 5,336
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: The Pingmobile splashed today!

Thanks Steady,
its a storage space ( sails, dinghies) rather than living quarters so utilitarian rather than fancy. Toying with putting that charcoal coloured material over the foil backed foam on...
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 03-09-2015, 12:02
Replies: 36
Views: 5,336
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: The Pingmobile splashed today!

Focsle as good as done.... just need to insulate inside lockers and put locker doors back on.

....... job list shrinking....
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 25-08-2015, 13:56
Replies: 36
Views: 5,336
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: The Pingmobile splashed today!

Almost done..... pick up liferaft, order genoa, service windlass, paint out the garden shed, fix a leak on a hard to get at fitting under the cowl.... trying hard to avoid that last one... big job...
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 10-07-2015, 22:04
Replies: 36
Views: 5,336
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: The Pingmobile splashed today!

I took the Pingmobile out for a spin today... first time for both of us in 11 months. Only under #2 jib with the sail cover on the main.

Engine worked, sail worked, autopilot clutch slipping,...
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 07-07-2015, 22:11
Replies: 36
Views: 5,336
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: The Pingmobile splashed today!

I put the saloon table back in yesterday ( ok the leaves still have to be attached).... so life slowly gets more civilized...

Only been back in the water 3 months and hope to go sailing one day...
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 02-06-2015, 03:55
Replies: 36
Views: 5,336
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: The Pingmobile splashed today!

Ho

Ho

Luckily its well sheltered... tied up in Antofagasta last year the constant surge and the on off loading on my two big nylon multiplait headlines ( eyes led through serious bits of...
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 02-06-2015, 02:30
Replies: 36
Views: 5,336
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: The Pingmobile splashed today!

Paid the last big invoice today...
so that feels better....
Only..... liferaft service, new genoa, new batts for epirb, new gen set.... and a bit of other stuff like renew radio grounds, fix a few...
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 03-04-2015, 20:10
Replies: 36
Views: 5,336
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: The Pingmobile splashed today!

Thus far I have , in the main, just thrown money at her.... my work has just begun.


A before ( a near sister pic but mine was in the same condition ) and after shot of my treadmaster deck.....
...
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 01-04-2015, 02:01
Replies: 36
Views: 5,336
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: The Pingmobile splashed today!

Hopefully back into the land of global warming denial next year....
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 01-04-2015, 01:51
Replies: 36
Views: 5,336
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: The Pingmobile splashed today!

Not quite fit yet but getting there..... 2 months ago....
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 01-04-2015, 00:28
Replies: 36
Views: 5,336
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: The Pingmobile splashed today!

Thank you also SWL...... :flowers:

Thought it was the original 'never ending story'.....

Splashed at 1107 .... I think they had 6 or 7 boats in or out before me today... amazing place......
...
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 01-04-2015, 00:21
Replies: 36
Views: 5,336
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: The Pingmobile splashed today!

Thankee Weavis,
yep feels good even if I have just cooked b/beans for tea in the cockpit on me Trangia....

a bottle of fine Chilean 'Terra Noble' Gran Reserva 2011 Carmenere ( from my wine...
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 31-03-2015, 23:11
Replies: 36
Views: 5,336
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: The Pingmobile splashed today!

Ooooops, wrong photo! :smile:
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 31-03-2015, 23:10
Replies: 36
Views: 5,336
Posted By El Pinguino
The Pingmobile splashed today!

Eight months to the day since she was hauled ( and 21 years to the day since I bought her in Thailand) the Pingmobile went back in the water...

Major work was a serious osmosis repair, drop keel,...
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