Well, let's see...
I removed the bow plate/anchor roller which was cast aluminum and had begun to fail, and rebuilt it with stainless steel. While I was going up and down the ladder, I noticed an unsightly bulge in the side of the rudder, so I put a moisture meter on it, and discovered it had fairly high moisture throughout. I removed the rudder, and ended up taking the fiberglass off about 90% of it, and eventually ended up buying a vacuum pump to dry it out. As long as I had the rudder off, I thought it would be a good time to replace the cutless bearing, and as I pulled the propshaft, I realized it was slightly bent, and badly worn in the area of the old packing gland. This led to a new PSS dripless system, a new stainless propshaft, new magnesium anode for stainless shaft, new cutless bearing, reconditioning of prop, and, since I wanted to make sure I cured all our vibration while I was at it - new engine mounts. While I was dropping the rudder, I also noticed how old the manual bilge pump was, and thought it should be rebuilt. When I discovered it would cost a couple hundred dollars to get the rebuild kit here from wherever the manufacturer was in England, I decided on a new Whale Titan. In the meantime, I removed the holding tank (since we still had a smell even after replacing the head, all the hoses, and adding a second vent to the tank). I still need to order a new tank, just trying to decide how much of the v-berth I want to cut up to get a larger tank in. Also sewed new interior cushions and replaced all the foam, since the old ones also smelled. Sewed a new sailcover since I had navy Sunbrella which I had purchased for piping on the interior cushions. While all that was going on, I also scraped 23 years of bottom paint and VC Tar barrier off the bottom, applied 6 coats of Interprotect 2000e, and a couple coats of ablative bottom paint. And of course, using Maine Sail's helpful guide to buffing and waxing, I polished and waxed the topsides. Some of the work, I let others do, like converting the main to loose footed and replacing the slides, and adding a UV cover to the working jib. Wonder what I would have been able to accomplish if I hadn't seen that bulge in the rudder?
