A general question- what is the most ambitious boat repair
or improvement project you've accomplished? What project
would you like to take on?

I know of people who have rewired boats, repowered, repaired
major hull damage, and so on. I met a lot of sailors who
seem reluctant to take on big projects, and we other who are
perpetually working on their boats.

At the moment I'm putting a new deck on our tugboat. But I'd
rank that as mundane, the toughest project I've tried is
making a competitive racing baby out of a 20 year old
Lightning. This went through 3 phases, the first two were
moderate successes and I never got to try the final result.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

Maybe building my 2 MiniCups, a trailer, a dolly, and figuring out how
to make sewn sails for them.
My current project is a 20' Tolman Skiff.

A general question- what is the most ambitious boat repair
or improvement project you've accomplished? What project
would you like to take on?

I know of people who have rewired boats, repowered, repaired
major hull damage, and so on. I meet a lot of sailors who
seem reluctant to take on big projects, and we all know
other who are perpetually working on their boats.

At the moment I'm putting a new deck on our tugboat. But I'd
rank that as mundane, the toughest project I've tried is
making a competitive racing baby out of a 20 year old
Lightning. This went through 3 phases, the first two were
moderate successes and I never got to try the final result.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

"DSK" wrote in message
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A general question- what is the most ambitious boat repair or improvement
project you've accomplished? What project would you like to take on?

I know of people who have rewired boats, repowered, repaired major hull
damage, and so on. I meet a lot of sailors who seem reluctant to take on
big projects, and we all know other who are perpetually working on their
boats.

At the moment I'm putting a new deck on our tugboat. But I'd rank that as
mundane, the toughest project I've tried is making a competitive racing
baby out of a 20 year old Lightning. This went through 3 phases, the first
two were moderate successes and I never got to try the final result.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

Being terrible with projects, the most I have ever done was the autopilot
installation. Turned out well, but it took forever. Seriously considering
replace the rubrail extrusion and insert, but will give very careful
thought, it's the kind of project that would keep the boat on the hard until
it's done, unlike the autopilot install. Believe it or not, couldn't find
anyone to do the autopilot installation, OTOH, probably saved quite a bit of
money going the DIY route.

John Cairns

Restoring RedCloud was a 5 year project. New wiring, Newmar panels, new
cap rail around the hull, some replaced hull plating, total
sandblasting, met coated the hull, new mahogany interior, galley table,
Shower Head combo, Stove, sails, rebuildt main, main heat exchanger,
Rebuildt transmission, rebuildt Genset, re-wind gen, new main bearing
gen and main, new 110V 225 GPM 4 comparment bilge pump system.
Wheelhouse removable cabin top, Washer dryer combo. New water tanks,
Main engine mounts, new gen mounts, radar, sonar, AC's,VHF's, LCD's,
LED's, PFD's, EPIRBS, RSL, DVD,Freezer, faucets,plumbing, board wench,
compressor, cracker box, AC's

Next projects include skylight for main cabin, davits for the stern,
Ham radio, SSB, world wide wireless based internet, another bottom job,
re-route the generator exhaust, Wind Generator, then a couple years
cruising at the least.

Joe

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:40:24 -0500, DSK wrote:

A general question- what is the most ambitious boat repair
or improvement project you've accomplished? What project
would you like to take on?

I know of people who have rewired boats, repowered, repaired
major hull damage, and so on. I met a lot of sailors who
seem reluctant to take on big projects, and we other who are
perpetually working on their boats.

At the moment I'm putting a new deck on our tugboat. But I'd
rank that as mundane, the toughest project I've tried is
making a competitive racing baby out of a 20 year old
Lightning. This went through 3 phases, the first two were
moderate successes and I never got to try the final result.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

A complete refit on a Columbia 8.7 which included:

1.Removing approximately 10 square feet of rotted balsa core and
replacing then reglassing in the deck and cabin trunk

2. rebedding all thru hulls and thru deck cover plates.

3. changing all fasteners that were into the core to thru the core
with appropriate back plates, decorative where necessary.

4. rebuilding the entire teak interior

5. replacing all the exterior ports (the original columbia design for
them was terrible) with solid polycarbonate surface mounted ports.

6.rebuilding all the hatches.

7. all new running rigging

8. A complete paint job with a catalyzed polyurethane (imron)

9. Sandblasted the lead keel and did the appropriate bottom work while
out.

Hundreds of other little projects during the refit. Took about a year
of spare time work to get it all done.

Well, some of you know the story of my Cal. I found her with fresh water
below deck from rain, hauled her, and did a complete top to bottom
rework/refit. The only things that remained from the original were the hull
(removed the head, patched, resealed, repaired), keel (restored, faired),
mast (repaired), rudder (restored rather than replaced), and a few bits of
hardware. I put in legal wiring, a battery, lights, etc. It was a great
learning experience.

--
"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

"DSK" wrote in message
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A general question- what is the most ambitious boat repair or improvement
project you've accomplished? What project would you like to take on?

I know of people who have rewired boats, repowered, repaired major hull
damage, and so on. I met a lot of sailors who seem reluctant to take on
big projects, and we other who are perpetually working on their boats.

At the moment I'm putting a new deck on our tugboat. But I'd rank that as
mundane, the toughest project I've tried is making a competitive racing
baby out of a 20 year old Lightning. This went through 3 phases, the first
two were moderate successes and I never got to try the final result.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

I'm still trying to forget...

Seahag

"DSK" wrote in message
.. .
A general question- what is the most ambitious boat repair
or improvement project you've accomplished? What project
would you like to take on?

I know of people who have rewired boats, repowered,
repaired major hull damage, and so on. I met a lot of
sailors who seem reluctant to take on big projects, and we
other who are perpetually working on their boats.

At the moment I'm putting a new deck on our tugboat. But
I'd rank that as mundane, the toughest project I've tried
is making a competitive racing baby out of a 20 year old
Lightning. This went through 3 phases, the first two were
moderate successes and I never got to try the final
result.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

Drink more.


"Seahag" wrote in message
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I'm still trying to forget...

Seahag

"DSK" wrote in message
.. .
A general question- what is the most ambitious boat repair
or improvement project you've accomplished? What project
would you like to take on?

I know of people who have rewired boats, repowered,
repaired major hull damage, and so on. I met a lot of
sailors who seem reluctant to take on big projects, and we
other who are perpetually working on their boats.

At the moment I'm putting a new deck on our tugboat. But
I'd rank that as mundane, the toughest project I've tried
is making a competitive racing baby out of a 20 year old
Lightning. This went through 3 phases, the first two were
moderate successes and I never got to try the final
result.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

Seahag wrote:
I'm still trying to forget...


Sorry, didn't mean to re-activate old trauma!

DSK