I located the Lewmar remote-control module up here, in the forepeak which would have been the cabin for my brother and me-- had my dad been entitled to have his own boat. 8 Jun 2012
This is Emerald, ex-Ecstasy, ex-Diana, the Cherubini 44 plug (1975) which was meant to be my dad's own boat. Circumstances conspired to deny him this, which is part of the reason my H25 is called Diana, in memory of this boat and his dream. Despite appearances this poor boat was really in sad shape, needing a full drying-out of the strip-planked hull (such as in a dehumidified barn) and a full gutting of the hydraulics and mechanicals that the former owner, a hydraulics engineer, had cluttered it with. But the new owner's budget did not permit us to do a first-rate job, such as the boat deserves. You can see the internal bronze sheave which the former owner installed inside the metal-cage bowsprit to carry the anchor rode out the end of the bowsprit (read my comments about the first pic here). Still, this is where I reported to work all summer of 2012. Pretty cool. 13 Apr 2012
The hydraulics engineer took liberties in screwing all sorts of hardware and hose mounts to the inside of the hull, driving sheet-metal screws right through all the 'glass and into the fir planking; then the boat wasn't very weathertight in the cockpit and the bilge was constantly wet. Therefore, the planking was wet. Lee and I stripped all the 'glass off both sides of the keel and dried it out, then reapplied vinylester 'glass to it. The hole that looks like a propeller-shaft outlet (the hydraulics engineer made sure he had a prop aperture hacked into the world's most beautiful hull form, like others have done since) was Lee's solution to adjusting the stuffing box, since the hydraulics engineer installed a large diesel tank directly above it, eliminating all access. Lee's idea is to scrape out fairing compound and remove this patch, from time to time, to inspect and maintain the stuffing box. (My idea was to relocate the diesel tank-- vetoed.) Aug-Sep 2012
On the C44 plug, Lee and I installed a new Lewmar windlass on the bowsprit. The prior windlass had been hydraulic because the owner, who finished what had been my dad's unfinished boat, was a hydraulics engineer. It weighed about 300 lbs. I lowered it off the boat with the stays'l boom. This particular boat's bowsprit, engineered by the hydraulics engineer, is made of galvanized steel angle iron and shelled with mahogany. I scraped out plenty of white corrosion from where the bronze windlass had been bolted to it and epoxied and painted as much as I could through the back panel, which Lee cut for as little access as we could get-- for no access was provided-for originally. (What kind of arrogance is needed for one to delude himself into thinking that what is good in his own theory might never need inspection, maintenance and replacement in practice?) Then the former owner had led a chain rode THROUGH the bowsprit to an internal bronze roller inside the very end of the 'sprit-- about the least sensible thing one could have done, for now the slowly-corroding galvanized cage is a girder in shear load holding the boat to her mooring. On factory-built C44s, the bowsprit is a robust spruce and 'glass structure that could probably hold up half the boat on its own. It does not fail unless you fail to take care of it. 8 Jun 2012
I located the Lewmar remote-control module up here, in the forepeak which would have been the cabin for my brother and me-- had my dad been entitled to have his own boat. 8 Jun 2012
This is the tidy installation of Lewmar bow-thruster motor Lee and I did here. Lee, the once and future 'glass king', did a marvelous job tabbing in the tube down there. I don't have the patience for that! The moldy hoses are original to the 1982 commissioning and we weren't tasked with replacing them. 11 May 2012
Here I am feeling weird to be chopping a hole in the strip-planked boat I helped build when I was 16-17. This is the 2012 bow-thruster hole for the new owner of the C44 plug, 'hull 0', from which Cherubini Boat's first molds were taken (this boat launched the type and the company). This was meant to be my dad's own boat and had the whole interior and deck layout he and I had conceived for it before my uncle, having made his molds from it, sold it as scrap to a hydraulics engineer who took 6 years to finish it into a functional yacht-- the boat my dad should have had. The guy even named it 'Ecstasy', which was sort of a kick in the teeth. Poignant work, doing all this. 23 Apr 2012
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I located the Lewmar remote-control module up here, in the forepeak which would have been the cabin for my brother and me-- had my dad been entitled to have his own boat. 8 Jun 2012

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