Project List
This is a list of the boat projects we're planning to complete a given year. Big projects may be carried over to the next year.
2023
- New Sprayhood (?)
- Light wind sail (?)
- Check chainplates
- Replace forestay screws/nuts
- Replace leaking raw water tap
- Minor aesthetic repairs in the cockpit and engine room
- New carpets
2022
- Replace toilet seals, add an anti siphon loop above waterline (done)
- Replace the standing rigging (new upper and lower shrouds) (done)
- Move the batteries to the saloon (done)
- Install a new, below deck autopilot (done)
- Create a new/split storage compartment in the aft locker next to the autopilot (done)
- Re-varnish the cockpit table (done)
- New curtains (done)
2021
- Finish all the paint jobs (red-stripes, transom, cockpit instrument holes) (done)
- Paint the bottom (done)
- Install a new bowsprit with an anchor roller (done)
- Replace the running rigging, lead all (most) lines to the cockpit (done)
- Replace the standing rigging (new rigging screws) (done)
- Fix the fridge box leak (done)
- Get new sails (done)
- New lazy bag (done)
- LED interior lights (ongoing)
- Re-varnish the cockpit wood (cup holder box, compaionway hatch) (done)
- Install a waste tank sensor (done)
2020
- Bilge and keel reinforcement (done)
- Install new keel nut backing plates (done)
- Reinforce the bilge with new structural members (done)
- Re-bond the floor beams to the hull (done)
- Fair/paint the bilge (done)
- Install a new bilge pump (done)
- Change the Sail Drive diaphragm, shaft seal, line cutter and anode (done)
- Replace the rusty engine mount adjustment plates (done)
- Check/clean the heat exchanger on the engine and bleed the system (done)
- Finish the big electrical refit project (done)
- Upgrade the generator on the engine (done)
- Remove the old TWC regulator (done)
- Move the positive busbar to the other side of the bulkhead (done)
- Battery box and engine battery isolation switch (done)
- Replace the wiring to the DC panel (done)
- New DC panel (done)
- Change all water hoses, the freshwater pump and taps, replace the water heater (done)
- Install new seawater tap in the galley (done)
- Finish the NMEA2000 cabling (done)
- De-mount the steering pedestal to run NMEA2000 cabling inside (done)
- Connect the VHF/AIS to the network (done)
- Replace the propane hoses inside the boat, install a 2nd gas leakage and a smoke detector (done)
- Clean the diesel tank (done)
- New roller-furling (done)
- Polishing/Repainting the new red-stripes (done)
- Service the autopilot wheel drive (done)
- Redesign the solar system (done)
- New cockpit speakers and VHF external speakers (done)
- Replace the ventillators (done)
- New lifelines (done)
- Remove all bottom paint (done)
2019
- Thru-hull and seacock replacement (done)
- Re-wire the mast (new VHF and wind sensor cables), change lights to LED (done)
- Install new Wind, Log, Depth instruments (done)
- Go through all the electrical wiring (done)
- Install new batteries (done)
- Install a battery splitter and battery monitor (done)
- Refresh the propane system in the locker (change valves, regulator and flexible hose) (done)
- New plumbing in the galley and head (done)