Starting out buying an old trailer cruise sailboat and scoping out some of the work needed before spring. Plan for the channel is to walk through some repair...

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it's early November little nice fall day

no better time than to go get a boat

well let's go

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guess this is where it all begins

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well managed to get the boat inside not

a lot of room but it's a good place to

work on it through the winter I'll have

some more cleanup to do in the garage

make a little more room got to get rid

of the canoe mol take that down to one

of my buildings so I'm gonna start

working on a few things hopefully get a

little bit of fiberglass work done

before winter really sets in front hatch

is probably the area that I get most

concerned over it's not the original

hatch and somebody's no no somewhere

along the line they put some fare and

compound in and filled in the front

water drainage so there definitely is

some softness in the front deck I'm kind

of prepared for that and I'm hoping to

to be able to do it from the underside

they keep the outer skin and the

original shape as possible and clean it

all out replace whatever core I need to

and redo the glass from the inside

that's the plan here we get the hatch

open smooth our hatch it looks like it

should be a salvageable hatch with all

along this front this is all cracked it

looks like just some some fairing that

somebody's put in fairing compound that

somebody's put in it's actually kind of

loose it's a little bit of cracking at

the back here to back up in here there's

some cracking as well so this is

definitely going to have to come out and

do some looking at this a little more in

depth

there's something on the boat that I'm

contemplating on redoing this gennaker

bowsprit that was put on a few problems

with it it seems there's not very

flexible it's not very solid the Hoss

hole has got a funnel shape to it

there's really no way to plug it so that

means the water goes in it's not sealed

between it and the deck there's no

there's no pipe inside of it so the core

of the deck is exposed and any water

that does come in goes into the anchor

road box that's it's not drained so

there's a few problems with that and

it's got no really no spot really to to

run the anchor Road on either so I'm

thinking about putting something

different here make something up it's

just so custom there isn't going to be

anything that's going to be

off-the-shelf that's gonna do what I'd

like to do so yeah another project all

I'll get to get to later I'm going to

take a look at this from the inside too

and see another problem with it you're

inside the boat and there's his bulkhead

that's in here yeah you know it was

great to put in to stiffen that stiffen

the deck a little bit but it's not even

straight and it really sticks down a lot

further than necessary so I'm gonna

clean that up and this but move forward

to be a before deck and where the that

bowsprit was bolted on and actually it's

kind of lucky that thing didn't pull

right off because the bolts are pretty

much rusted right through doesn't even

look like it was galvanized hardware so

won't be replacing that and the wiring

too for the bow light kind of leaves

something to be desired so picks that up

as well

quite a treat here nice a kind of

massive electrical basically no effort

here to seal it whatsoever and obviously

would have been leaking like crazy bolts

are completely rusted these ones here I

wonder I might be able to just break

them off with my hand

maybe not but not really but it wouldn't

take much they're just basically nothing

there anyway I don't know I think I'm

gonna be filling in this portion of the

deck here to get a good solid surface

bring that back a little bit further

really reinforce it well from underneath

me move the the hole over to one side so

I could put a general gennaker Bowl on

on the other side I hope to have to

ponder that a little bit design

something so I guess it's a kind of good

point to wrap this video up next video

I'll get into into the decks and what's

going on there a little more involved I

guess some questions why this folks late

seventies McGregor venture for what I've

got to got in mind I like the idea of a

gong : being kind of in some places that

don't see a lot of sail boat traffic

some inland waterways that you know just

aren't really sailing destinations but

are equally beautiful and less popular

Oh actually two all film in more on the

on videos in the future you know why why

getting into sailing I've had a life of

all kind of other adventures from hiking

backpacking canoeing

climbing mountaineering this is just

another another another venture I'll get

to that another time on that I think

I'll just leave you with a few slides

from some other adventures

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