We have a very long project list on our boat. When I first bought her for $18000, almost nothing worked. No electrical, no water, no windlass, old rigging and chainplates, no bilge pump, all seacocks rusted open. I am able to get about 10 days in a row each month to live on the boat and fix her so at this point we have put in about 700 hours restoring her. I have a friend in Palau that I pay $200 per month to watch the boat daily and to do basic cleaning and painting.
When I first went aboard, the boat had water (mostly freshwater from rain leaks) up to the floorboards in the bilge – there was no bilge pump! Even the propane tank had floated out of its compartment which was full of rainwater and wouldn’t drain. Check out some of our before and after pictures below.
Chuck
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- This original panel didnt work at all! Ripped out hundreds of old useless wires
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- New AC and DC electrical panels
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- Removed the old rusty stove
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- New tile and hotplate to replace the rusty stove
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- Nice genset was getting rusty from rainwater leaking in.
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- Genset after naval jelly and primer coat
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- no bilge pump when I bought her. occasionally another yachtie would visit Mowe and drop a hotwired pump into the water to pump it out.
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- I hotwired it and duct taped it to the exhaust hose as a temporary measure to get the water out
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- Carla is a great helper
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- Removable for cleaning and maintenance.
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- Deck a mess and dirty before…
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- Deck much cleaner after some oxalic acid scrubbing
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- New Yanmar parts are expensive but nice!
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- Old depth finder was in pretty sad shape.
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- New depth finder with GPS and shoots thru hull so no thruhull needed
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- Tach was so rusty it fell out of its mount. Palau is very wet !
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- Replaced the genset and Yanmar impellers early on….and cleaned the strainers. Much better cooling flow now : )
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- The bathroom is looking great. We added a Natures Head composting head.
So far I like what I read. Keep the content coming and I love the pics of course. You definitely have something to blog about! I’m envious.
Thanks Cameron. Were having fun.