This boat is now about sixteen years old and launched thirteen years ago today, so happy birthday!
It gets regular refurbishing and is in the process of a forward bilge repaint, that and correct cable runs to transducers and a bilge pump.
The boat can more or less be viewed full length inside when the various floors (soles) are lifted for inspection. Keeping things clean allows you to see whats happening and makes for a tidy boat.
The Johnston pump has an easy clean and removable base, the pump is not fixed and the hose allows it to be lifted for removal of the base, not the stick on cable ties. In this pump out the waste water is pumped up to a U vented loop half way up the side of the hull, then down to the S&L bronze seacock and out of the boat.
It gets regular refurbishing and is in the process of a forward bilge repaint, that and correct cable runs to transducers and a bilge pump.
The boat can more or less be viewed full length inside when the various floors (soles) are lifted for inspection. Keeping things clean allows you to see whats happening and makes for a tidy boat.
The depth transducer is to Port and the speed transducers are to Starboard, the forward section is the Shower pump out bilge. The paint is Internationals Interthane 990 polyurethane twin pack system.
The electric bilge pump out motor has been removed for a clean and check that its all ok.
Roy
A comment from a friend:
Hi mate,
Well, it all looks spick and span down there
now. At first I thought I was looking through a mirror but then remembered that
you have twin cabins down there and I noticed that what I thought was the bilge
reflection in what I thought was a mirror was not the same. I hope you show
potential boat kit customers just how good a timber boat can look below the
floor boards?
Notty.
Clean and easy to wipe down, the water drains aft to the bilge pump.
