J-Star Marine Services next project to restore this tired Hardy 25 cruiser.

One of the first jobs is to remove this old tired rope fender and replace with a new rope when the restoration is almost completed with a fender the correct length.

After the rope fender is removed, then do the necessary gelcoat repairs and compound and polish the hull back to as near to the way it was when it left the Hardy yard.

Most of the gelcoat repairs are on the bow and down the starboard side where the boat as been manoeuvred  in the past.

The port side as a few marks 

The starboard side as a lot more 

The transom is a bit more difficult to compound because of the amount of fittings to work round.

Another of the major jobs is to remove and replace all the window rubbers and the Perspex windows in the cabin

Then the wheelhouse windows rubbers need to renewed as well as these are perished as well.

 

Starting the long job of filling and long boarding the old decks to make them flat enough to re-veneer the decks

The first job was to fill the low areas of the deck with epoxy and low-density filler to repair the damaged area of the original veneer.

There are a fair number of areas around the decks and the edges.

Starting to long board the sloping deck on the front of the boat.

Yjen tackle the large area of the flat foredeck 

The start to long board the side decks

 

Speed boat restoration of the decks, first get girt of the old varnish and then sand back the surface so it can be re-veneered.

The speed boat is back in the workshop, this time to have the deck re-veneered with new mahogany veneer 

Getting girt of the old varnish with a heat gun on the old varnish which is  still on the side decks 

Half the port side deck varnish removed 

The whole of the port side old varnish removed and now the time for the sander to get girt of the last of the varnish on the surface of the deck

The port side sanded back to the bare wood, just a bit of filling to fair up the deck areas where bits of veneer is missing before relaying a fresh veneer over the top of the old deck.

 

The transformation of the Morgan Giles 30 from an empty shell to a almost complete expedition cruising yacht

Almost two years ago we were putting in the the first of the main bulkheads back into this Morgan Giles 30 after stripping out the interior and unbolting the deck from the hull to remake the flange joint which has failed and leaked. 

Fitting the main parts of the bulkhead it was time to fibreglass the top and bottom and then fill in the piece against the hull.

At the time is felt like a large area, however, that changed as more bulkheads and panels were glassed in place.

Over the past 18 months the owner as been building a new custom interior which will suit the cruising he and his partner will be undertaking in the future.

The interior is now almost finished with just few more items to be fitted before the inside will be insulted as the yacht will be going to the northern latitudes 

 

The deck getting the last few areas filled and then the deck can get sanded for a final time and the a final few coats of epoxy primer.

Using plasters tools it was able to fill larger areas and get a better finish so that we just have to give the decks a light sanding to get them flat and fair.

Just a few areas on the side decks 

A couple aras in the front and aft ends of the cockpit