The refit of the Hardy Pilot is now starting to put the linings back on the cabin side and the hull and the bulkheads going in position

The new chain locker bulkhead is now glassed back in position and  is ready to be flow coated before being covered in boat carpets

The cabin sides have been relined with vinyl  and the hull as been relined with boat carpets close to the original colour as was possible to source.

The vinyl is a better colour and easier to keep clean than the original which got mildewed.

The creases in the vinyl are where the windows are and the vinyl on the cabin sides are flat.

The area under the galley unit relined as before.

The first bulkhead which makes up the toilet compartment the other bulkhead/ door is going to go back in shortly and then the headlining panels will go back up in place.

 

This was the back of the Fairline Carberra 24 looked like at the start of the refit and this is what the engine bay looks like now

When the Fairline Carberra 24 came to us the engine bay looked a bit of a mess with bits laying all over the place.

So the first job was to sort out what was going to be saved and what parts were going to go in Skip.  

Now that the engine bay was cleared of all the mess it was time to get down to sorting out all the parts that were missing and replacing parts which were not needed anymore and doing cable and control line runs around the engine ready to put the engines back in place.

The first job was to make sure the engine were complete and any parts that were missing had been replaced and any final checks made before refitting the engines.

As you can see they are a close fit in the engine bay with not a lot of room around the engines to work on them.

 

THe time has come to put the engines back into the engine bay now that the work is done on the engines and in the engine bay.

At long last the engine bay is now in a position to put the engines back into the engine bay and reconnect them up to the outdrives. All the work to sort out the old wiring and damaged and broken cables and gear shift cables. 

The transom shields have had all the moving parts unseized so that the outdrive trim covers work freely and move as they should and can be operated.

The outdrive legs have been checked over and any parts sorted so that they will work correctly when reconnected to the engines and the they have new bellows graters fitted.

The engines have been rebuild and all the missing parts replaced and so they are ready to go back in the engine bay

The engine with its lifting sling fitted to lift it back in place.

 

The Morgan Giles 30 gets a new heart it just needs connecting to the rest of the boat.

After a long time in the making it was now the time to fit the new engine into the Morgan Giles 30. With the aid of the local boatyard and their crane and its driver we were able to put the new engine in the boat.

The owner of the boat had made sure that there was going to be a good amount of room round the engine to work on all the engine services items when at sea and make sure that engine bay was fit for purpose.

It is now up to us to get all the parts connected up so that when it comes time to launch her it will be a turn key moment. 

After a bit of careful measuring we were able to ensure that the forward panel will fit as it was originally intended to be fitted. This was because the original new engine was going to be one size down from this final engine. In the end it fitted well into position.

 

Good day on Aurora with a few jobs ticked off the list.

 The first job was to sand the patches on the bottom that need to be epoxy coated to have the same level of protection as the rest of the hull. The only problem is that we will have to get the yard to move a couple of legs a little so that we can finish sanding the bottom where the stands are on the hull.

We also got the inner stern tube gland base fitting fitted and so the rest of the stern tube can be finished off. Then we can fit the exhaust skin fitting and then the sawn neck exhaust fitting and the waterlock and run the exhaust pipe from the engine bay to the new exhaust transom fitting. 

We have also got the pushpit fitted which just leaves the pulpit to be fitted and the guard wires to be refitted. Then the boat will be save to work on the decks. So a few jobs ticked off with more to come.