Tips, tricks and stories about living aboard and sailing around the world
The floor beneath the steering wheel / rudder was totally rotten and needed to be replaced. Also a better support was needed so that in the future the new wooden floor would stay in it’s place when for example one would jump up and down on it. The new wooden floor was coated with epoxy and also painted with the same polyurethane paint as the cabin. Some other work was also done on the side of the boat where some water was leaking with heavy rainfall.
After the cabin was coated with 5 layers of epoxy it was sanded once again, and ready to be painted. We used a polyurethane based yacht paint from a dutch company called Epifanes. Before applying the (white) base layers, a primer (see grey layer in the photo’s) was uses to create a better bond with the epoxy and also to fill up any pinhole etc. After that 2 layers of the white polyurethane based yacht paint was painted on to create the finished painted cabin. I did actually want to put 4 layers of paint on the cabin, but after being in a pretty horrible car accident I was kind of out of it for a while, so that was no longer possible because the temperature where getting to low. So that will have to wait till next year.
It’s been a long time since the last post and a lot has happened, but I won’t be going into too much boring details. The bad news is Seadog is still not ready to sail, but the good news is that the last couple of weeks a lot of headway has been made. I will firstly be posting some of the photo’s and short stories of the stuff that has been done in the last two years, beginning with the finishing touches of the cabin, like the entrance as one can see in the photo’s below.
We didn’t really trust the existing (very old) electric cables that where still in the boat so we decided it was time to replace the whole electric system. We started with the 230v AC system and the 12 volt DC system will follow later.
We decided to replace the old diesel heater that came with the boat. After a long search we found the beautiful Refleks diesel heaters that are sold by Rietpol (Holland). Rietpol is a shipyard which was established in 1936 in the old village Spaarndam in The Netherlands. They import these heaters from Denmark and then customise them for example with a little window, radiator coil or a cook plate.
We only went to the shipyard for some information about the choices there where, but left the same day with a secondhand heater that the they had overhauled. Still left a hole in our budget, but is was a good investment nonetheless.
