Saturday 20 June 2020

Starting the major refit of Mai Star II for the second time, taking her back to bare bones a second time in 12 years and starting again

This coming week, I will make a start the second major refit of Mai Star II with getting rid of the damaged deck beam along the front cabin and then make a camber jig to make new deck beams, which will made up out of laminated hardwood to strengthen the deck around the mast. This should ensure the deck beams do not break again. Then making a job list to get the jobs done a proper order. That way not doing jobs more than once. 

So the only way is to strip it back to strip off the decks and cabin roof, back to where she was when I first bought her back in 2008. This time I have  an couple of people helping me do the refit. 

Job No 1 
Strip the boat back to bare bones and then list the work that needs to be done starting at the bow and working back and from cabin roof to keel. This job is going to be long as there are a lot of small jobs which have to be done in order to get some of the major jobs done. So there is going to be a lot of dismantling before there is any reconstruction  done. So for the first few weeks there is a lot of hammer and cutting work to be done.

That is Plan A 

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