Sailboat renovation
In this category you will find our blog posts related to our sailboat renovation, all posts except the engine renovation. We are renovating our sailboat Anne-Mon so that we can cross oceans with her. When we bought the sailboat she had been abandoned for 10 years and there are a lot of work to get her in a good condition. We do all work ourselves and hopefully this will inspire someone that it is not impossible to restore a sailboat and be able to sail around the world with an older sailboat. We have also done a complete renovation of our engine, a Volvo Penta MD19, and all posts related to the engine renovation can be found under the category Engine. List with a link to all posts in the Sailboat Renovation category:
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Fuel tank renovation
When we were working with cleaning the bilge one day we accidentally hit one of the connections to the fuel tanks and broke it. It started pouring diesel into the bilge and we did a temporary fix. But this was something that we definitely needed to do a proper fix for. Since we had broken one of the connections in the fuel tanks we had decided to remove all the other connections so that we could change them. When we were removing the remaining connections we managed to break 3/5 of them. It was a really good decision to change them! And it was also a good thing it broke now…
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Draining and cleaning the bilge
One thing we really wanted to do when the engine was lifted out from the boat was to do a proper draining and cleaning of the bilge. We also had to move Anne-Mon
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Repair the guardrail
While we worked with the plastic cracks we also decided repair the guardrail. The stanchions for the guardrail were loose in two places.
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Finalizing the plastic repair in the cockpit (for now)
It was time for us to finalize the plastic repair in the cockpit. Since we had opened a plastic crack with some wet and rotten wood inside, we decided to ground and open up some other small cracks.
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Plastic crack with rotten wood
We opened up a plastic crack in the cockpit of our sailboat. The plastic crack was wet and there were rotten wood inside.
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