I am about to get underway with my newly purchased 1981 H22, and I am new at this, so sorry for the dumb questions, but I have a few. 1. Under the floorboards, it is kind of yucky and flaky and peely and I want to scrape it down and refinish it with something. Any suggestions? What is down there anyway, is that where the lead ballast is? 2. Any suggestions for a replacement automatic bilge pump set up? 3. I want to take off the dinette and also the teak guides along the sides of the companionway hatch drop boards for repair and refinishing. How do I pop out the wooden screw-hole plugs to access the screws without ruining the plugs? Or do I just use a corkscrew get new plugs? 4. The hatch cover is hard to slide back and forth, is this normal? Any way to improve that other than the obvious cleaning and lubrication? 5. Any suggestions regarding power? Anyone know a good inexpensive Wind/solar set up? And for gas, should I just rely on the outboard, or get a generator? If so, any recommendations for a good small generator? Many thanks. -Jim
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1. After scraping off the majority of the loose stuff any good outdoor house paint will do. I'm not sure you even NEED to paint it as paint is only cosmetic and does not "keep out the water" or any such thing. 2. A bilge pump should have automatic and a manual control switches. There is usually a float switch to handle the automatic part and a 3-way switch on the electrical panel that can be set to auto-off-manual to handle turning the pump off and on and letting the float switch handle it. 3. The plugs will gladly give their life for a refinish. There is no way I have heard of to save them. Which brings up an interesting point, if I refinish the pieces without the plugs in, what do I do after I reinstall them and put new unfinished plugs in. I've always refinished in place or taken off the piece and cleaned it then installed it and the plugs, sanded the plugs down and refinished. 4. Yep, clean and lube. 5. A very involved question. The production-storage-usage of electrical power on a boat is system. Each part must support the other. Without knowing your usage or storage needs and how you intend to use the boat it would be imposable to tell you what kind of production means would be most cost effective.
1. After scraping off the majority of the loose stuff any good outdoor house paint will do. I'm not sure you even NEED to paint it as paint is only cosmetic and does not "keep out the water" or any such thing. 2. A bilge pump should have automatic and a manual control switches. There is usually a float switch to handle the automatic part and a 3-way switch on the electrical panel that can be set to auto-off-manual to handle turning the pump off and on and letting the float switch handle it. 3. The plugs will gladly give their life for a refinish. There is no way I have heard of to save them. Which brings up an interesting point, if I refinish the pieces without the plugs in, what do I do after I reinstall them and put new unfinished plugs in. I've always refinished in place or taken off the piece and cleaned it then installed it and the plugs, sanded the plugs down and refinished. 4. Yep, clean and lube. 5. A very involved question. The production-storage-usage of electrical power on a boat is system. Each part must support the other. Without knowing your usage or storage needs and how you intend to use the boat it would be imposable to tell you what kind of production means would be most cost effective.
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1. We have a hunter 23 and I just cleaned under the floor boards. Did not do much else. 2. No suggestion. 3. If you have to pull the plugs take a drywall screw and screw in slowly until they hit the other screw and the plug should pop out. I have done as Bill suggested and just finish in place. 4. On our companionway cover I took the soft side of velcro strips and stuck them to the companionway slide. This made it slide way easy. 5. Decide how much power you need. We stay out every once in awile and a small solar trickle charger keeps our battery charged up just fine. If we are out for a longer trip I have a spot for a second battery. Enjoy the boat. Rob Morton S/V Euphoria
1. We have a hunter 23 and I just cleaned under the floor boards. Did not do much else. 2. No suggestion. 3. If you have to pull the plugs take a drywall screw and screw in slowly until they hit the other screw and the plug should pop out. I have done as Bill suggested and just finish in place. 4. On our companionway cover I took the soft side of velcro strips and stuck them to the companionway slide. This made it slide way easy. 5. Decide how much power you need. We stay out every once in awile and a small solar trickle charger keeps our battery charged up just fine. If we are out for a longer trip I have a spot for a second battery. Enjoy the boat. Rob Morton S/V Euphoria
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