Moving along Part 5

The engine has now run , so we know that side of things is more or less complete. Of course we need to run the engine for some time, but for now until the main alternator arrives back from the overhaulers it can wait. I haven’t got the new prop yet either.

Now attention is full time of getting everything else done. The relaunch is scheduled for the end of March which seems some time off , but the weeks are speeding by, and there is still a lot to do.

Here are some pix of the how the woodwork is coming along

This one shows the new domestic panel without the instruments but with the chart table in the UP position.

and this one with them installed witht he chartr table DOWN.

Now trhe shart table wghich folds down and away

When I bought the boat there was an ancient fishfinder installed. It didn’t work and a check up told me that it would cost about twice as much as a new one to fix it,,,, so out it went, but the transducer was left intact. I had bought a replacement at SIBS, an offer I just couldn’t refuse, and it came with a proper built through the hull transducer.  Getting the old original out was fun indeed, but at last it was out.  The new one required a larger hole through the hull, so I wondered if I could modify the original, a very nice teak one, with the 10 degree deadrise angle already machined.  Bu chance I have a friend who has a very well equipped workshop complete with lathes and all the lovely tools such things require.  He kindly offered to do it…. A matter or hours later I was presented with the job done. I had also given him apiece of mahogany to manufacture the matching inside block from. Suffice it to say the job went together no trouble at all, even though the weather was foul to say the least.  Cold, windy and generally miserable.  Now I can put the wiring for that together and connect jt up to the panel.

Again the original boat had just had a curtain across the doorway between the wheelhouse and the cabin, which was, I suppose the cheapest way of doing things, So SWMBO thought that a door might be a better idea. Well I suppose a suggestion is as good as an order or the proverbial Nod's as good as a Wink etc so I made a bifold door, that could fold right back against the wheelhouse bulkhead.

OK it's not finished yet.....

nearly there

closed but I have to fir the furniture yet.

It is in my mind to make a drop down shelf there so that the PC that runs the chartplotter could sit there at sea and so be seen more easily. If it were on the left hand door when part opened and bolted down, that half of the door would be facing the helm. Hmmm!!!!!