Moving everything off after 10 years. Two dinghy loads equals one car load.
Haul out at Boat Lagoon, Phuket. The Jotun antifoul has held up really well again.
Not much to pressure wash off.
Positioning Crystal Blues right infront of our contractor's workshop, Pro Yachting.
Us having a celebratory drink in the cockpit. Now we have to start stripping off all the deck fittings.
ProYachting team removing the mast. Very professional and quite painless for us.
Everytime we pull the mast we place a gold coin into the mast deck foot.
Just as the Pro Yachting team moved in the tent the skies opened up.
Mr Sung, from Nop Welding, has built us a new 316 stainless steel step.
To reduce back pressure on the Cummins we raised the exhaust outlet around 10".
We pressured washed most things that came off Crystal Blues.
All the cushion covers have been washed and put back on. The Warwick MicroSuede still looks great after 7 years.
"Winterising" the outboard motor on the front gate.
Washing down the staysail in the middle of our street.
Sanding the mast steps.
So many colours to choose from!
Old antifoul was breaking up - due to compressor oil sprayed on during our last sandblast.
Once the antifoul was scrapped off the true damage was revealed - we needed to sandblast again.
Jimmy Watts doing a hull thickness survey. Excellent results.
Antifoul stripped off and ready for sandblasting
Removing the antifoul with paint stripper.
After sandblasting the hull was sprayed with four good coats of Joutun epoxy.
Inspecting the fairing along the waterline.
Cutting out the heat damaged top of our dodger.
The new 316 dodger, sandblasted and epoxy coated with the stainless track welded in for the mainsheet traveler and bimini clears.
Sandblasting the mast to clean it up and provide the correct profile for the paint to adhere to.
Fairing and sanding the mast.
Much attention has been lavished on our mast by Jill and Pro's team.
Dirty work grinding rust in the anchor locker.
Sand blasting in the anchor locker for 15 days - we never want to do this job again!
Painting after sand blasting in the anchor locker.
Neil loves working in the forepeak of the forward locker! He is using sika flex to seal the Maxwell windlass installation.
Pink cockpit - masked up and ready to be painted.
Stage one of hard bimini - timber knockup.
Neil is marking out on the new hard bimini where the timber blocks need to be inserted into the honeycomb. These will be glassed over, faired and then painted. The blocks provide hard fixing points for the mounting backets, solar panels, etc
Turning over the glassed and faired bimini just before painting.
To remove the freezer we had to destroy the galley.....
Yat is cutting out the Dow Corning foam for the front side of the freezer box.
Corain bench tops being installed in the galley.
We had all the internal drawers and doors sanded down and refininshed with a matt polyurathane finish - they look like new.
