A summary of the modification and restoration plan follows. I'll provide more detail in the near future. Some of the planned modifications will likely take another direction as we continue to research options and ideas. Some may not prove practical. Nonetheless, this has been and remains the basic plan developed over the last eight years.
Updated 21 Apr 2015
Deck: - Repair rotted deck core. (completed) - Remove toe and rub rail. (completed) - Glass over the hull to deck joint with three layers of 1708 biaxial tape and epoxy. (completed) - Install teak 1X5 bulwark that runs the entire length of the deck with the bottom edge set 1" above the deck.(completed) - Remove the mainsheet traveler to provide room for our 9" Fatty Knees dinghy. (completed) - Relocate mainsheet to end of boom.(completed)
- Install traveler on bridgedeck. (completed) - Remove old platform bowsprit and steel backing plate. (completed) - Replace bowsprit with a new design. (completed) - Convert from wheel to tiller. (completed) - Build and install a three bottle Propane locker. (Completed) - Install dinghy chocks on cabin top to provide secure mount for the hard dinghy. (completed)
- Install Cape Horn Self Steering Windvane. (completed) - Remove portholes, hatches, and deck fittings. (completed) - Reinstall portholes, hatches, and deck fittings. (completed) - Fabricate and install bronze and teak boom gallows. - Paint deck. (completed) - Install Refleks heater flue and smoke head. (completed)
- Make pattern for gammon iron and have it cast. (completed)
- Install bronze gammon iron. (completed) - Design and weld bulwark and stanchiuon bases. (completed)
- Reinstall cockpit coamings. (completed)
- Install bronze bulwark and stanchion bases. (completed)
Interior: - Completely gut interior. (completed) - Retab all bulkheads. (completed)
- Through bolt all bulkheads with 1/4-20 bolts. (completed) - Install double berth forward. (completed) - Rebuild head to incorporate a sitz tub. (completed) - Install two pilot berths and new settees. (completed) - Rebuild galley. (completed) - Use solid wood A. Mahogany (tongue and groove) for all vertical faces. (completed) - Build counter-tops with solid ash. (completed) - Install a solid walnut cabin sole. (completed) - Install water tanks under cabin sole. (completed) I have decided to go with "Dura-weld" plastic tanks). - Raise quarter berth to gain more storage. (completed) - Convert sitting chart table to standing chart table with ice box under. (completed) - Install mahogany beams on cabin overhead.(completed) - Install new mahogany plywood cabin sides (completed). - Install closed cell insulation in overhead and under side deck. (completed)
- Install close cell and reflectix foam for removable hull insulation. (completed) - Build pattern and have fuel tank built for Refleks heater. (completed)
- Install fuel tank for heater. (completed) - Design, have built, and install dedicated shower water tank. (completed)
- Install shower water tank. (completed)
- Make and install work bench. (completed)
- Design, build, and instal folding varnished ash table for saloon. (nearly completed)
Hull: - Strip hull and old barrier coat. (completed) - Remove all ten seacocks but reinstall only three. (completed. - Remove rudder and fill in propeller aperture. (completed) - Rebarrier coat and paint hull with bottom paint (completed)
- Fair, prime, and paint topside and cabin top with Awlgrip. (completed)
Rig:
- The original plan was to rebuild the original rig but add a longer traditional style bowsprit. However, early in the rebuild of the Far Reach we were afforded the unexpected opportunity to obtain a new custom designed rig. The plan consisted of the following:
- A new mast that is 3 1/2' taller for a total length of 51.5'. (completed)
- Double spreaders. (completed)
- Maintain cutter rig. (completed)
- New boom with internal reefing lines. (completed)
- End boom sheeting. (completed)
- 7x7 5/16" SS 316 hand spliced wire standing rigging. (completed)
- Dynex Dux inner forestay. (completed)
- Vertially stowed whisker/spinnaker pole. (completed)
- Increased bow sprit by 35" for a total bowsprit length, forward of the stem, of 50". (completed)
- Install custom designed and built, swing arm, removable, side mount outboard engine mount. (completed)
The total working sail area increased by about 200 square ft from actual working sail of 750 sf to 963 sf.
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