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Mast butt renovation
The weather is not on our side this spring, it way to cold an rainy for us to work with plastic repairs right now, so in the meantime we started prepare for rigging the masts. We have a keel-stepped main mast. As we understand it, it is very hard to get rid of all leakages in a keel-stepped mast but we will do everything we can to prevent leakages. A sign of old leakages is our rusty mast butt. We will get rid of the rust and paint it so that it can withstand potential future leakages better. Now the mast butt is ready to have the mast connected, which…
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Continuing with the plastic repairs
On Saturday the sun was shining and we were finally able to continue with the plastic repairs. As mentioned earlier, we had removed the window we had in the cockpit since it was leaking a lot (read more about it HERE). Now it was time to seal and reinforce this area with fiberglass and polyester. We started with the plastic repair late summer last year, if you want to read more about our previous plastic work, check the tag Plastic repair. We have chosen to use polyester for the plastic repairs in the cockpit, the reasons why we choose polyester over epoxy are: The price, polyester is cheaper than epoxy…
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Sliding hatch renovation
It was time for some sliding hatch renovation. Our sliding hatch was broken in some places and was also leaking a lot through the window. We do not want any leakages at all and there have been a lot of water coming in to the boat through this hatch and it is something we really want to fix before the summer season. After adding the linseed-oil we left the hatch alone for fourteen days. We did this so that the oil will harden completely. Now it has gone more than fourteen days since we did the oil treatment and we will start varnishing the wood and figure out how to…
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Battery installation
It was time to make a safe arrangement for our batteries. Our battery box is a little bit bigger than our batteries, and we wanted to have some support in the box so that they won’t move when the boat tilts. We will have a some pieces of wood around the batteries in the box and an extra strap to tighten the batteries down. We painted them white so that they will look nice 🙂 During the weekend it has been raining a lot here in Stockholm, which was a perfect opportunity to see if the cowl vents we repaired last weekend wasn’t leaking anymore. What we can see they…
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Removing leaking window in cockpit
We recently fixed a leaking porthole we had in the cockpit, but that was not the only leakage we had in the cockpit. There is a also a window on the deck in the cockpit which has been leaking a lot. It is just a plexiglass sealed with marine sealing. Since most sealing materials doesn’t stick pretty well on plexiglass we will remove this window completely. For a while we had an idea of having a proper deck hatch, but they are expensive and our cockpit is pretty small so the hatch might make it feel smaller. We also have an idea of having a table in the cockpit and…
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