southace said..
Between gales I have managed to continue advancing back (forward) on the teak restoration while also catching 8 plump King George whitting and a couple of thumper southern calmari squid.

Lazzz said..


What are you using for the sanding?? It's a good thing we both love working on boats :)

Wander66 said..
Sanded off the old antifoul and scraped off some degraded vinylester coating with bladed scraper, ground out the 100'ish small blisters, applied first barrier coat of Wattyl Epinamel PR250 and starting on fairing using Wattyl Seapro EFC , feel like I'll regret fairing the whole hull when I have to go back to sanding, but we'll see.

The PO had gouged out a section of the skeg to help with removing the prop shaft and left it open, which made for a weak point which had a lot of flex, so that's been filled, now there's no obvious flex, along with some minor rudder repairs.

Also had the engine cooling flushed with acid (was badly clogged) and the old rusty and cracked mixing elbow replaced with a HDI GMkit stainless version, all new hoses and clamps, thermostat, anodes, electric fuel pump etc etc.

With some concentrated effort she should be back in the water later next week.

Lazzz said..




1190 watts sure is regulated!! The rear panels & wind gen go through a Redarc Dual Input Multi-Stage 12V Battery Charger BCDC1250D which does a fantastic job!! Thanks to Jode5 here for convincing me to go this way - It's the beez kneez!! The new panels are looked after by a 60A MPPT eSmart3 Solar Charge Controller. I haven't got this wired in yet, waiting on some circuit breakers, but I know it works good.





I actually didn't throw much away from the workshop - most of it I "really need or could come in handy one day"!

Love the Polyflex stuff - Ozzy, very easy to deal with & a great product.

The toe rails are just cheap pine from the Green Shed - I wanted to see if it would work OK & I now have templates for when they fail. They are not glued to paint but bolted on & that "glue in the photo" is actually lubricant for tapping threads.







I didn't copy your snubber, didn't even know you had one!!
Mine is 16mm & the garbage bin door is pretty solid - thanks for the heads up but I'll go steady on the can crushing. Probably won't get used as much as yours!!!!!

What are you using for the sanding?? It's a good thing we both love working on boats :)

garymalmgren said..
Hi ramona
Will be watching Ricochet come back to life with pleasure.
You have a lot of work and decisions ahead.
As to, will those winches stay there?
Different cabin,?


Do you think it is worth putting a call out for volunteers?
You know what the say about "many hands"

Wishing you success at every step

gary

Lazzz said..
This thread is one of my favourites on this forum and I enjoy seeing what others are doing to their boats - sometimes giving me ideas for extra things to do to mine, sometimes giving me ideas on different ways to do stuff!! I used to really enjoy following Haydn's progress with his boat & miss the, usually daily, posts.

I haven't posted here much lately but I am always doing something. A lot of boring stuff such as painting, end for ending anchor rode, new engine mounts etc but some things are not so boring - for me at least.

Here's a bit of a catch up and I hope I can share a bit more in future:


Installed a timber toe rail


Looks good all varnished up!!



Made a thingy to raise & lower the duckboard with a push of a button - bit of overkill but I had a spare linear actuator lying around!!



New engine mounts & coupling



Cleaned out the workshop/ sail locker - didn't think I had so much "stuff" in there!!!



Gave it a wash & came up pretty good - didn't even need a paint!!



I bought a new engine water pump for a spare - if this fails it's too hard to Mcgyver something & they're not easy to get hold of so good to have a spare!!



I made a copper coil to run the engine coolant through to go inside my hot water tank. I originally only had a 240v element to heat the water but this coil exceeded my expectations!! I also put a 12v element in the tank as well while I had it out.


Not the prettiest but all works great - 45 litres of hot water after 1/2 hr of motoring :)



I got the idea off Southace on here to install a can crusher - I just have to get used to beer from cans instead of glass!!



Made a new anchor snubber - how did we get on without YouTube?? I had to trim the ends when I was back on the boat - didn't have the gear at home.



And finally todays job - which started all this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Installed 2 new solar panels on the bimini


I now have 1190 watts of solar + wind gen feeding my batteries.

Stockie said..




Hi Wander,
That looks great, how did you sand the AF off, I'm about to embark on a similar project next week. I have bought a Mirka orbital and dust extractor, wish me luck! I want to restore my underneath to a clean substrate, apply a barrier coat and lay on some hard AF with the thought of a burnish at the end. I'll post up some photos as the job progresses!

cheers Richard

southace said..
For antifoul removal/fairing I would use a sander polisher with 36-80grit on the lowest speed possible the dust falls to the ground and works a treat.