Well if part of a Cal 29 boat needed work well .... been there and done that. I bought what looked like a good boat. Well it is now! I have rebuilt just about anything but the hull and engine. I re-gel coated the deck, cockpit, and hull. Rebuilt the forward bulkhead, main bulkhead, minor bulkheads just about any part of the interior, reinforced all the interior sub decking, settee main cabin, forward cabin, water tanks, new cabinets in the main salon and head, installed a refrigerator, new head with holding tanks, replaced that monster beam under the main bulkhead with one of SS, repaired the decks at the chainplate exits, moved the chainplates to the hull, replaced all the electronics, added a radar, 2 new additional battery banks (two starting batteries 12VDC, 2 gel cell batteries 12VDC (anchor and running lights), 4 golf cart batteries 6VDC ea. for 24VDC system {the refrigerator}), solar panels in new mahogany hatches, re-rigged the safety wire rail, different stanchions, double safety wire, jack lines made of SS wire rope, improved the access from the stern ladder, double filter system selectable on the fly, deck access to Yanmar diesel, rebuilt the salon table, replaced the ice box with a 12 VDC refrigerator, re-chromed the head opening portholes, replaced the port lights with three opening portholes on port and starboard, replaced the running lights, anchor lights, cabin lights, added two more auto bilge pumps, added a manual bilge pump (whale gusher), new spreader lights, steaming lights, changed all lights to LED's and a newer genoa. Overhauled the roller furling, replaced the winches (mine got stolen) built a new mast deck step, (again some scum stole the original for the aluminum). and had new chainplates made. My sailboat survived Hurricane IKE with just a scratch that cleaned up with dish soap. It has been on the hard the whole time since I made the wild abandon acquisition. We had 8 feet of storm surge at the boat yard. Lost all my power tools to the storm.
Now I originally thought this was going to be a 2 year project. Well I squeezed it into a 5 working years with 3 years recovering from a 45 day long coma. (unrelated to the sailboat adventure). Now I am finishing up the deck hardware, the last of the plumbing of the sinks and the engine service. Test it all out to make sure all systems are go and LAUNCH!
I think I will sail to Florida and take a month off to do nothing but sail and fish.
Now I originally thought this was going to be a 2 year project. Well I squeezed it into a 5 working years with 3 years recovering from a 45 day long coma. (unrelated to the sailboat adventure). Now I am finishing up the deck hardware, the last of the plumbing of the sinks and the engine service. Test it all out to make sure all systems are go and LAUNCH!
I think I will sail to Florida and take a month off to do nothing but sail and fish.