cockpit works underway

all the woodwork that has been put into the cockpit over the years is now removed apart from the locker fronts which are using to be left in place and used to determine the size of the locker tops  

The old heater ducting removed to gain access to items under the cockpit sole and will be going back in once all the work under the cockpit sole is finished

Removed the old steering pipes as these are no longer any good as the Autopilot as been removed and the pipe run will now go directly to the steering ram at the back of the boat.

At last the panel as got the last of the old instruments removed and now have to work out how best to fit the new instruments to the dashboard and make an upper dashboard to fit the extra instrument into a pod on the top of the dashboard. 

The starter motor terminal felt off as it had not been fitted correctly 

This is the other end and terminal is just about fixed on, but would not take much for it too to fall off like the other end.

Let the rebuild being after finishing the fixing of the rope fender rubbing strake.

Sea cocks and changeover valves

Once the seacock was removed from the boat it was dismantled which needed a bit of use of a drift and a big hammer to split the two parts of the sea cock as it had been tighten down so hard that it seized together

Once it is apart it can be cleaned up and machined up to make it work again.

This new seacock is one that is designed to not seize as it as a grease channel in machined into the bearing faces which is feed by a grease nipple 

The manual bilge pump changeover valve which is u/s as the operating handle is not connected to the changeover valve in the middle of the valve

Working under the cockpit sole, the work that it not seen when the boat is done.

One of the more unpleasant jobs when working under the cockpit sole, removing the old toilet pipework especially the toilet discharge pipes.     

Removing the seacock for the discharge pipe, the old seacock was seized in the off position so it could not be used, so it was removed to be replaced with a more update model which can be greased to keep it from getting seized  

The old depth and log transducers so the new transducers can now be fitted close to the end of the refit.

This bilge pump is fitted in a position where it is not going to be of any use as by the time the level gets this height the bilge pump will not be able to pump water out fast enough to keep the boat afloat so this arrangement will have to be re-position  to make it useable

An empty workshop space, however not for long and a small grp repair to do.

A clean and tidy space in the workshop getting ready for the next boat to come in to have its decks replace and a few other smaller jobs to do while it is in the workshop

A old grp dinghy that got a hole in the bottom while being recovered after a days sailing

The position of the repair is a bilge keel which is a difficult repair to do as it will mean making a small mould of the area before rebuilding the area after the old damage grp is removed

The small hole , but with all repairs it looks easy, however the inside is inside a bouyancy tank which is going to opened up to get to the inside of the tank to get to the inside part of the repair. 

The rubbing strakes going back on and the start of items starting to go back together

The port side rubbing strake going back on was the easier side as there is less interior bulkheads and units in the way.

A completely different thing on the starboard side with galley units, toilet compartment bulkheads and battery locker and gas locker and engine control cables in the way.